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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian 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	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

Marris, E. 2005. First glimpse. Nature 438(7071): 1064–1067.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, X., and Tung, K.-K. 2014. Climate. Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration. Science 345(6199): 897–903.

A journal article with 3 authors

Overby, C.L., Hripcsak, G., and Shen, Y. 2014. Estimating heritability of drug-induced liver injury from common variants and implications for future study designs. Sci. Rep. 4: 5762.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, T., Peng, Z., Wang, Y., Tang, J., and Zheng, G. 2013. MnO nanoparticle@mesoporous carbon composites grown on conducting substrates featuring high-performance lithium-ion battery, supercapacitor and sensor. Sci. Rep. 3: 2693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levitin, V. 2005. High Temperature Strain of Metals and Alloys. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Tamir, D.E., Rishe, N.D., and Kandel, A. (Editors). 2015. Fifty Years of Fuzzy Logic and its Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Golovach, P.A., Paulusma, D., and Song, J. 2012. Closing Complexity Gaps for Coloring Problems on H-Free Graphs. In Algorithms and Computation: 23rd International Symposium, ISAAC 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, December 19-21, 2012. Proceedings. Edited by K.-M. Chao, T.-S. Hsu, and D.-T. Lee. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 14–23.

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 Canadian Journal of Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014, January 24. Molten lava meets a can of Coke. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/molten-lava-meets-can-coke/ [accessed 30 October 2018].

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. 2010. Aviation Safety: Icing and Winter Weather-Related Recommendations That NTSB Has Issued Since 1996 (GAO-10-679SP), an E-supplement to (GAO-10-678). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hartl, S.D. 2012. The role of culture in managing diversity: How culturally based heuristics differ in minority and non-minority managerial decision making. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Wagner, J. 2017, July 10. Once ‘All In,’ Mets Are More Than 10 Games Out at the All-Star Break. New York Times: D5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Marris 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Marris 2005; Chen and Tung 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Chen and Tung 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Can. J. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1480-3275
ISSN (online)	0008-4166
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Immunology Microbiology General Medicine