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

Kerr RA. PLANETARY SCIENCE: Making a Splash With a Hint of Mars Water. Science. 2000;288(5475):2295-2297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poon AC, Ferrell JE Jr. Systems biology. A clock with a flip switch. Science. 2007;318(5851):757-758.

A journal article with 3 authors

Talkington MWT, Siuzdak G, Williamson JR. An assembly landscape for the 30S ribosomal subunit. Nature. 2005;438(7068):628-632.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang H, Nussbaum-Wagler T, Li B, et al. The origin of the naked grains of maize. Nature. 2005;436(7051):714-719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DeRosa DF. Foreign Exchange Operations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Lefere P, Gryspeerdt S, eds. Virtual Colonoscopy: A Practical Guide. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Fraenkel AA. As a Professor in Marburg and Kiel (1919–1929). In: Cohen-Mansfield J, ed. Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany. Springer International Publishing; 2016:115-163.

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

Carpineti A. Scientists Find Earth’s Geological Birthmarks. IFLScience. May 16, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-find-earth-s-geological-birthmarks/

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. Achievements, Cost, and Administration of the Ocean Sediment Coring Program. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Konggidinata MI. Application and Modifications of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC) for BTEX Removal: Characterization, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Kinetic Studies. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 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

Rojas R. Prosecutors Set to Begin in Retrial of Patz Suspect. New York Times. October 18, 2016:A19.

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