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

Grayson M (2010) Introduction: Curiosity aroused. Nature 467:S2-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Schneider RA, Helms JA (2003) The cellular and molecular origins of beak morphology. Science 299:565–568

A journal article with 3 authors

Butler SJ, Vickery JA, Norris K (2007) Farmland biodiversity and the footprint of agriculture. Science 315:381–384

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schultz MG, Diehl T, Brasseur GP, Zittel W (2003) Air pollution and climate-forcing impacts of a global hydrogen economy. Science 302:624–627

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rainey LD (2010) Confucius & Confucianism. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Keromytis AD (ed) (2012) Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 16th International Conference, FC 2012, Kralendijk, Bonaire, Februray 27-March 2, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Sampaolesi R, Sampaolesi JR, Zárate J (2014) Genetics, Heredity, and Molecular Biology in Glaucoma. In: Sampaolesi JR, Zárate J (eds) The Glaucomas: Volume II - Open Angle Glaucoma and Angle Closure Glaucoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–84

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) New And Inexpensive Material Captures Oil But Lets Water Through. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-and-inexpensive-material-could-help-clean-environment/. 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 (2014) Telecommunications: USDA Should Evaluate the Performance of the Rural Broadband Loan Program. 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

Song H-J (2014) Strategic Constraints of Economic Interdependence: South Korea’s Changing Strategy in the Face of a Rising China. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Feeney K (2006) Chocolate And a Touch Of Chic. New York Times NJ6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Schneider and Helms 2003; Grayson 2010).

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

Two authors: (Schneider and Helms 2003)
Three or more authors: (Schultz et al. 2003)

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

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