How to format your references using the Annals of Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of 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

Ball P (2003) Portrait of a molecule. Nature 421:421–422

A journal article with 2 authors

Etienne-Manneville S, Hall A (2002) Rho GTPases in cell biology. Nature 420:629–635

A journal article with 3 authors

Park H, Li Y, Tsien RW (2012) Influence of synaptic vesicle position on release probability and exocytotic fusion mode. Science 335:1362–1366

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang J, Sun B, Huang X, et al (2014) Honeycomb-like porous gel polymer electrolyte membrane for lithium ion batteries with enhanced safety. Sci Rep 4:6007

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jenkinson J, Hyde T, Ahmad S (2008) Building Blocks for Learning: Occupational Therapy Approaches. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

An edited book

Stamm M (ed) (2008) Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces: Characterization, Modification and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ihara M, Seko S, Miyata A, et al (2016) Towards More Practical Information Sharing in Disaster Situations. In: Yamamoto S (ed) Human Interface and the Management of Information: Applications and Services: 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016 Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016. Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 32–39

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 Annals of Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) It’s Not Earth 2.0, But Our New Rocky Neighbour Is A Planet Worth Watching. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2002) VA Information Technology: Progress Made, but Continued Management Attention Is Key to Achieving Results. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sugawara Y (2013) When the Spaniels conquered Central America: Academic English and first year composition instruction. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Kelly C (2017) Men Who Know What to Do With Sparkly Eye Shadow. New York Times B5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Etienne-Manneville and Hall 2002; Ball 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Etienne-Manneville and Hall 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Ann. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1590-4261
ISSN (online)	1869-2044
Scope	Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology