How to format your references using the Cellular Microbiology citation style

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

Powell, K. (2012) Molecular oncology: The positive in the negative. Nature 485: S52-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, L., and Edwards, S.V. (2015) Comment on “Statistical binning enables an accurate coalescent-based estimation of the avian tree.” Science 350: 171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohmann, C., Myhr, K.L., and Wong, R.O.L. (2002) Transmitter-evoked local calcium release stabilizes developing dendrites. Nature 418: 177–181.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ryan, P.G., Bloomer, P., Moloney, C.L., Grant, T.J., and Delport, W. (2007) Ecological speciation in South Atlantic island finches. Science 315: 1420–1423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Terré, M., Pischella, M., and Vivier, E. (2013) Wireless Telecommunication Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Campbell, J., Baikaloff, N., and Power, C. (eds) (2006) Towards a Global Community: Educating for Tomorrow’s World. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Cesare, S., and Xiang, Y. (2012) Formal Methods of Program Analysis. In Software Similarity and Classification. Xiang, Y. (ed.). Springer, London. pp. 29–39.

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 Cellular Microbiology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016) Why Scientists’ Failure To Understand GM Opposition Is Stifling Debate And Halting Progress. IFLScience .

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 (2014) Aviation Workforce: Current and Future Availability of Aviation Engineering and Maintenance Professionals. 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

Roediger, E. (2015) Relaxation Skills Training for Elementary Aged Children. .

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

Crow, K. (2002) They Say the Town Cars Are Three Wide on Broadway. New York Times 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Powell, 2012; Liu and Edwards, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Edwards, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ryan et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellular Microbiology
Abbreviation	Cell. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1462-5814
ISSN (online)	1462-5822
Scope	Immunology Microbiology Virology