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

McCune JM. The dynamics of CD4+ T-cell depletion in HIV disease. Nature. 2001;410(6831):974-979.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gruber N, Galloway JN. An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle. Nature. 2008;451(7176):293-296.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suda M, Kato R, Yamamoto HM. Superconductivity. Light-induced superconductivity using a photoactive electric double layer. Science. 2015;347(6223):743-746.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roussel EG, Bonavita MAC, Querellou J, et al. Extending the sub-sea-floor biosphere. Science. 2008;320(5879):1046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia T, Anzur T. Power Performance. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Rajendram R, Preedy VR, Patel VB, eds. Diet and Nutrition in Critical Care. Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Clifton C. Discovering Privacy. In: Gaber MM, ed. Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers. Springer; 2012:51-59.

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. Researchers Study More Than 15,000 Penises To Determine Average Lengths Around The World. IFLScience. March 3, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-study-probes-average-penis-size/

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. ADA Paratransit Services: Survey of Public Transit Agency Officials on Services and Costs (GAO-13-18SP, November, 2012), an E-Supplement to GAO-13-17. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thompson K. Paid Formal Caregivers and Caregiver Burden: A Quantitative Study. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Hughes O, Kelly C. It’s Enough to Make the Generous Turn Grinchy. New York Times. December 19, 2010:MB9.

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