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

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

Woods CG (2004) Neuroscience. Crossing the midline. Science 304:1455–1456

A journal article with 2 authors

Leek JT, Peng RD (2015) Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg. Nature 520:612

A journal article with 3 authors

Lai Y-T, Cascio D, Yeates TO (2012) Structure of a 16-nm cage designed by using protein oligomers. Science 336:1129

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ridderinkhof KR, de Vlugt Y, Bramlage A, et al (2002) Alcohol consumption impairs detection of performance errors in mediofrontal cortex. Science 298:2209–2211

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph CL, Bernal S (2016) Modern Devices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sirgy MJ, Rahtz D, Swain D (eds) (2006) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases II. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Balzer K, Bonitz M (2013) Lattice Systems. In: Bonitz M (ed) Nonequilibrium Green’s Functions Approach to Inhomogeneous Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–82

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 Archives of Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Could We Spot Aliens From Their Pollution? 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 (2013) Broadcast and Cable Television: Requirements for Identifying Sponsored Programming Should Be Clarified. 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

Laird EC (2012) Training social workers to use solution-focused interviewing with Child Protective Services clients: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Rothenberg B (2017) A Rested Williams Shakes Off the Rust. 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 (Woods 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Woods 2004; Leek and Peng 2015).

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

Two authors: (Leek and Peng 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ridderinkhof et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Arch. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0302-8933
ISSN (online)	1432-072X
Scope	Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology Microbiology General Medicine