How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ball P. Publishing: The journal that publishes no papers. Nature. 2015;526(7571):146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kingston T, Rossiter SJ. Harmonic-hopping in Wallacea’s bats. Nature. 2004;429(6992):654-657.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jakosky BM, Haberle RM, Arvidson RE. Planetary science. The changing picture of volatiles and climate on Mars. Science. 2005;310(5753):1439-1440.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang J, Zhang Z, Roe SM, Marshall CJ, Barford D. Activation of Rho GTPases by DOCK exchange factors is mediated by a nucleotide sensor. Science. 2009;325(5946):1398-1402.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood BG. Wealth Exposed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Chabrot P, Boyer L, eds. Embolization. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Alomari EA, Monowar MM. Towards Data Confidentiality and Portability in Cloud Storage. In: Marcus A, ed. Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience Design for Diverse Interaction Platforms and Environments: Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2014:38-49.

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 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. This New Planet Formation Theory Could Explain The Weird TRAPPIST-1 System. IFLScience. Published June 8, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-new-planet-formation-theory-could-explain-the-weird-trappist1-system/

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. Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Spanish Version). U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Knudsen E. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Empowerment Program: A Grant Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Healy P, Stockman F. Public Rattled as Campaign Turns Coarser. New York Times. October 16, 2016:A1.

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	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Braz. J. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1517-8382
Scope	Microbiology