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

Gershon D. Changing the face of training for science at the interface. Nature 2000; 404:315–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henneman ML, Memmott J. Infiltration of a Hawaiian community by introduced biological control agents. Science 2001; 293:1314–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nosil P, Crespi BJ, Sandoval CP. Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation. Nature 2002; 417:440–3.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shin S, El-Diwany R, Schaffert S, Adams EJ, Garcia KC, Pereira P, Chien Y-H. Antigen recognition determinants of gammadelta T cell receptors. Science 2005; 308:252–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme R. Flows and Chemical Reactions in Heterogeneous Mixtures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Yu RK, Schengrund C-L, editors. Glycobiology of the Nervous System. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Harrison SD. Singing, Men and Australian Culture. In: Harrison SD, Welch GF, Adler A, editors. Perspectives on Males and Singing. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. page 65–75.

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

Evans K. New Spider Species Named After Harry Potter Sorting Hat [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-spider-species-named-after-harrypotter-sorting-hat/

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. Public Transportation: Washington Metro Could Benefit from Clarified Board Roles and Responsibilities, Improved Strategic Planning. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ray SJ. Departmentalized Classroom Environments Versus Traditional Classroom Environments in Second Through Fourth Grades: A Quantitative Analysis. 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

Feeney K. Comfort and Spice. New York Times2010; :NJ9.

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
Scope