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

Mirkin SM. DNA replication: driving past four-stranded snags. Nature. 2013;497(7450):449-450.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson R, Moore T. The economics of information security. Science. 2006;314(5799):610-613.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kossin JP, Emanuel KA, Vecchi GA. The poleward migration of the location of tropical cyclone maximum intensity. Nature. 2014;509(7500):349-352.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cao CY, Shen YY, Wang JD, Li L, Liang GL. Controlled intracellular self-assembly of gadolinium nanoparticles as smart molecular MR contrast agents. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kolb RW. Sovereign Debt. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Benysek G, Pasko M, eds. Power Theories for Improved Power Quality. Vol 1. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Farnan JM, Arora VM. Graduate Medical Education and Patient Safety. In: Agrawal A, ed. Patient Safety: A Case-Based Comprehensive Guide. Springer; 2014:53-68.

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

Andrew E. Camelopardalid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight. IFLScience. May 12, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/camelopardalid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight/

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 Transit: Information on Job Access and Reverse Commute Activities after 2012 Statutory Changes. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fu J. Tartuffe Lab: A Developing Work. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

O’connell ME. The Questions Brennan Can’t Dodge. New York Times. February 7, 2013:A27.

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