How to format your references using the Bacteriophage citation style

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

Check E. Cancer fears cast doubts on future of gene therapy. Nature 2003; 421:678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perner J, Ruffman T. Psychology. Infants’ insight into the mind: how deep? Science 2005; 308:214–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levis RJ, Menkir GM, Rabitz H. Selective bond dissociation and rearrangement with optimally tailored, strong-field laser pulses. Science 2001; 292:709–13.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Forde SE, Beardmore RE, Gudelj I, Arkin SS, Thompson JN, Hurst LD. Understanding the limits to generalizability of experimental evolutionary models. Nature 2008; 455:220–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavi MR. The Impact of IFRS on Industry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Bart F, Cau-di-Coumes C, Frizon F, Lorente S, editors. Cement-Based Materials for Nuclear Waste Storage. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Keteyian SJ, Schairer JR. Exercise Training and Prescription. In: Lawless CE, editor. Sports Cardiology Essentials: Evaluation, Management and Case Studies. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. page 63–84.

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 Bacteriophage.

Blog post

Andrew E. Destruction of Amazon Rainforest Visible From Space [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/destruction-amazon-rainforest-visible-space/

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. State Department: Problems in the Diplomatic Courier System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hariharan SB. The Structure of the Blue Whirl: A Soot-Free Reacting Vortex Phenomenon. 2017;

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

Gustines GG. Murphy Anderson, 89, Longtime DC Comics Artist. New York Times2015; :B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Bacteriophage
Abbreviation	Bacteriophage
ISSN (print)	2159-7073
ISSN (online)	2159-7081
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