How to format your references using the Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 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

Pockley P (2001) Climate change transforms island ecosystem. Nature 410:616

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde PS, Knudsen EI (2002) The optic tectum controls visually guided adaptive plasticity in the owl’s auditory space map. Nature 415:73–76

A journal article with 3 authors

de Jong PW, van Lenteren JC, Raak-van den Berg CL (2013) Comment on “Invasive harlequin ladybird carries biological weapons against native competitors.” Science 341:1342

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shahbazi MN, Scialdone A, Skorupska N, Weberling A, Recher G, Zhu M, Jedrusik A, Devito LG, Noli L, Macaulay IC, Buecker C, Khalaf Y, Ilic D, Voet T, Marioni JC, Zernicka-Goetz M (2017) Pluripotent state transitions coordinate morphogenesis in mouse and human embryos. Nature 552:239–243

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, American Industrial Hygiene Association (2009) Continuous Monitoring for Hazardous Material Releases. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Baars HF, Doevendans PAFM, Houweling AC, van Tintelen JP (eds) (2016) Clinical Cardiogenetics, 2nd ed. 2017. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Oliveira ACM, Lorena LAN (2007) Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms and Clustering Search. In: Abraham A, Grosan C, Ishibuchi H (eds) Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–99

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 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Lock-And-Key Technology Promises Rapid Cancer Testing for Developing World. 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 (2014) Nanomanufacturing: Emergence and Implications for U.S. Competitiveness, the Environment, and Human Health. 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

Cuvar KM (2015) Balanced and collaborative outsourcing of IT services: A qualitative Delphi study of enterprise partnerships. 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

Sisario B (2017) McCartney Sues to Get Back His Songs. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Pockley 2001; Hyde and Knudsen 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hyde and Knudsen 2002)
Three or more authors: (Shahbazi et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	0175-7598
ISSN (online)	1432-0614
Scope	Biotechnology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology General Medicine