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

Houston SD (2006) Anthropology. An example of Preclassic Mayan writing? Science 311:1249–1250

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang D, Lu L (2007) Anti-correlation of summer/winter monsoons? Nature 450:E7-8; discussion E8-9

A journal article with 3 authors

Reimand J, Wagih O, Bader GD (2013) The mutational landscape of phosphorylation signaling in cancer. Sci Rep 3:2651

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Klose RJ, Yamane K, Bae Y, et al (2006) The transcriptional repressor JHDM3A demethylates trimethyl histone H3 lysine 9 and lysine 36. Nature 442:312–316

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Volpe MA (2013) Rethinking Christian Identity. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Doumeingts G, Müller J, Morel G, Vallespir B (eds) (2007) Enterprise Interoperability: New Challenges and Approaches. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Liu D, Li G, Fan R, Guo G (2016) Research About Big Data Platform of Electrical Power System. In: Wan J, Humar I, Zhang D (eds) Industrial IoT Technologies and Applications: International Conference, Industrial IoT 2016, GuangZhou, China, March 25-26, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 36–43

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 D (2016) Feed A Virus But Starve Bacteria? When You’re Sick, It May Really Matter. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/feed-a-virus-but-starve-bacteria-when-youre-sick-it-may-really-matter/. 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 (2007) Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Competition Issues. 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

Rogers S (2014) Teacher Induction Programs: How Key Components Influence Teacher Retention Rates in Rural School Districts. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Loomis G (2016) Interpreting Verdi and Alfredo Casella. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Houston 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Houston 2006; Zhang and Lu 2007).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Lu 2007)
Three or more authors: (Klose et al. 2006)

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