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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Microbiology Reviews (CMR). 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

Fabian AC. 2006. Astronomy. Variable high-energy gamma rays from the elliptical galaxy M87. Science 314:1398–1399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris T, Podsiadlowski P. 2007. The triple-ring nebula around SN 1987A: fingerprint of a binary merger. Science 315:1103–1106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maduwage K, O’Leary MA, Isbister GK. 2014. Diagnosis of snake envenomation using a simple phospholipase A2 assay. Sci Rep 4:4827.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Palazzo AF, Eng CH, Schlaepfer DD, Marcantonio EE, Gundersen GG. 2004. Localized stabilization of microtubules by integrin- and FAK-facilitated Rho signaling. Science 303:836–839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lad BK, Shrivastava D, Kulkarni MS. 2016. Machine Tool Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

2014. Prostate Cancer Prevention. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Berka T, Vajteršic M. 2014. Dimensionality Reduction for Information Retrieval Using Vector Replacement of Rare Terms, p. 41–60. In Yada, K (ed.), Data Mining for Service. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2016. SpaceX Just Test-Fired A New Rocket Engine That Will Launch Missions To Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-just-testfired-a-new-rocket-engine-that-will-launch-missions-to-mars/. Retrieved 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. 1996. Scientific Research: Continued Vigilance Critical to Protecting Human Subjects. T-HEHS-96-102. 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

Rosenberg EL. 2010. Learning to live: The clinical importance of first-person accounts of recovery from anorexia nervosa. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Gurley G. 2012. Since 1956, a Sensitive Guy. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Clin. Microbiol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0893-8512
ISSN (online)	1098-6618
Scope	General Immunology and Microbiology Epidemiology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health