How to format your references using the Anaerobe citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Anaerobe. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

G.F. Medley, Epidemiology. Predicting the unpredictable, Science 294 (2001) 1663–1664.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Grandi, G.G.C. Palumbo, Jet and accretion-disk emission untangled in 3C 273, Science 306 (2004) 998–1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.-S. Gong, W. Zhu, D.N. Sheng, Emergent chiral spin liquid: fractional quantum Hall effect in a kagome Heisenberg model, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6317.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.R. McConnell, J. Emery, Y. Eshed, N. Bao, J. Bowman, M.K. Barton, Role of PHABULOSA and PHAVOLUTA in determining radial patterning in shoots, Nature 411 (2001) 709–713.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W.L. Frank, D.K. Whittle, Revalidating Process Hazard Analyses, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

S. Stanczak, Fundamentals of Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: Theory and Algorithms, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.R. Bullock, Lead Acid Battery Systems and Technology for Sustainable Energy, in: R.J. Brodd (Ed.), Batteries for Sustainability: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 117–134.

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 Anaerobe.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, The Large Magellanic Cloud Might Have A New Satellite, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-large-magellanic-cloud-might-have-a-new-satellite/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, November 1988 Internet Computer Virus and the Vulnerability of National Telecommunications Networks to Computer Viruses, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Gonzalez, A mentoring program for Latino foster youth: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Court Puts Teeth in “Notice” Needed to Seize Property, New York Times (2006) A18.

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	Anaerobe
Abbreviation	Anaerobe
ISSN (print)	1075-9964
Scope	Microbiology Infectious Diseases