How to format your references using the Annual Review of Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review 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	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

Rhodes G. 2014. The career I dreamed of? Science. 345(6202):1414

A journal article with 2 authors

Pahlevan K, Morbidelli A. 2015. Collisionless encounters and the origin of the lunar inclination. Nature. 527(7579):492–94

A journal article with 3 authors

Schulte DM, Burke RP, Lipcius RN. 2009. Unprecedented restoration of a native oyster metapopulation. Science. 325(5944):1124–28

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wright TJ, Ebinger C, Biggs J, Ayele A, Yirgu G, et al. 2006. Magma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode. Nature. 442(7100):291–94

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esmailzadeh R. 2016. Broadband Telecommunications Technologies and Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Wexner SD, Stamos MJ, Rombeau J, Roberts PL, Beck DE, eds. 2009. The ASCRS Manual of Colon and Rectal Surgery. New York, NY: Springer. XXVI, 1046 p. 273 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ekoff M, Nilsson G. 2011. Mast Cell Apoptosis and Survival. In Mast Cell Biology: Contemporary and Emerging Topics, ed AM Gilfillan, DD Metcalfe, pp. 47–60. Boston, MA: Springer US

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 Annual Review of Microbiology.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2015. How Quickly Would A Zombie Outbreak Spread? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/map-your-own-zombie-outbreak/

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. 2008. Aviation Weather: Services at Key Aviation Facilities Lack Performance Measures, but Improvement Efforts Are Under Way. GAO-08-491T, 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

Bai H. 2017. Cognitive processes of prioritization in multitasking. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Mississippi State 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

St. John Kelly E. 1993. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, Dec. 12, p. 1321

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (3, 4).
This sentence cites four references (3, 4, 6, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0066-4227
ISSN (online)	1545-3251
Scope	Microbiology