How to format your references using the AIMS Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Microbiology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Jacobson MZ (2013) Comment on ‘Radiative absorption enhancements due to the mixing state of atmospheric black carbon’. Science 339: 393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tegmark M, Bostrom N (2005) Astrophysics: is a doomsday catastrophe likely? Nature 438: 754.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hauser MD, Chomsky N, Fitch WT (2002) The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science 298: 1569–1579.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Anderson JS, Reisz RR, Scott D, et al. (2008) A stem batrachian from the Early Permian of Texas and the origin of frogs and salamanders. Nature 453: 515–518.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Cohen M (2010) Mind Games, Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Panigrahi BK, Suganthan PN, Das S, et al. (Eds.) (2011) Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing: Second International Conference, SEMCCO 2011, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, December 19-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mattatia F (2011) An Overview of Some Electronic Identification Use Cases in Europe, In: Assar S, Boughzala I, Boydens I (Eds.), Practical Studies in E-Government: Best Practices from Around the World, New York, NY, Springer, 71–92.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for AIMS Microbiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2015) IFLScience, Jupiter May Have Kicked A Gas Giant Planet Out Of The Solar System Billions Of Years Ago, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/jupiter-kicked-out-giant-planet-out-solar-system/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1972) Controls Over Funds Available to the District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Crivello A (2009) DNA methylation of the interferon-gamma promoter in association with overexpression of the interferon-gamma gene in periodontal disease.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Pear R, Pilon M (2013) Auto Racetrack Owners Keep Coveted Tax Break. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	AIMS Microbiology
ISSN (online)	2471-1888
Scope