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

Alvarez-Buylla A (2014) Yoshiki Sasai (1962-2014). Nature 513:34

A journal article with 2 authors

Yun MH, Hiom K (2009) CtIP-BRCA1 modulates the choice of DNA double-strand-break repair pathway throughout the cell cycle. Nature 459:460–463

A journal article with 3 authors

Rouse GW, Goffredi SK, Vrijenhoek RC (2004) Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. Science 305:668–671

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Heisenberg CP, Tada M, Rauch GJ, et al (2000) Silberblick/Wnt11 mediates convergent extension movements during zebrafish gastrulation. Nature 405:76–81

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smaini L (2012) RF Analog Impairments Modeling for Communication Systems Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Matloff G (2014) Harvesting Space for a Greener Earth, 2nd ed. 2014. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Cramp DS (2008) The Trial Judge. In: Kraushar MF (ed) Risk Prevention in Ophthalmology. Springer, New York, NY, pp 37–39

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 D (2015) What’s The Fastest (Fictional) Spaceship In The Universe? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fastest-space-ship-universe-how-sci-fi-ships-stack/. 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 (1983) Status of FCC Efforts To Allocate Costs Between Telephone Companies’ Regulated and Unregulated Activities. 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

Milillo MS (2009) Analysis of emotional intelligence among management leaders and non-management leaders in software development. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Wagner J (2017) Alone Among Starters: Healthy and Dominant. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alvarez-Buylla 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Yun and Hiom 2009; Alvarez-Buylla 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yun and Hiom 2009)
Three or more authors: (Heisenberg et al. 2000)

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