How to format your references using the Clinical Microbiology Newsletter citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Microbiology Newsletter. 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

[1]

Rakic P. Neuroscience. No more cortical neurons for you. Science 2006;313:928–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pack CC, Born RT. Temporal dynamics of a neural solution to the aperture problem in visual area MT of macaque brain. Nature 2001;409:1040–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kaminski J, Call J, Fischer J. Word learning in a domestic dog: evidence for “fast mapping.” Science 2004;304:1682–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fukushima T, Kosaka A, Ishimura Y, Yamamoto T, Takigawa T, Ishii N, et al. Molecular ordering of organic molten salts triggered by single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 2003;300:2072–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Karr R. Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Pollack R, Pach J, Goodman JE, editors. Twentieth Anniversary Volume: Discrete & Computational Geometry. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lee AN, Nie Y. The ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Engaging Parents in Their Children’s Science Learning in Informal Contexts: Theoretical Perspectives and Applications. In: Khine MS, editor. Science Education in East Asia: Pedagogical Innovations and Research-informed Practices, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 93–121.

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 Clinical Microbiology Newsletter.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Russian Spacecraft Falling To Earth Poses No Danger – We Have Survived Bigger Objects. IFLScience 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. National Assessment of Educational Progress: Its Results Need To Be Made More Useful. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Fregoso J. Through the pipeline: Degree aspirations of African American and Latino males enrolled in California community colleges. 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

[1]

Verkuil PR. The Case for Bureaucracy. New York Times 2016:A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Clinical Microbiology Newsletter
Abbreviation	Clin. Microbiol. Newsl.
ISSN (print)	0196-4399
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)