How to format your references using the Current Clinical Microbiology Reports citation style

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

1. Epstein JM. Modelling to contain pandemics. Nature. 2009;460:687.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ratnieks FLW, Carreck NL. Ecology. Clarity on honey bee collapse? Science. 2010;327:152–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yin Q, Jacobsen SB, Yamashita K. Diverse supernova sources of pre-solar material inferred from molybdenum isotopes in meteorites. Nature. 2002;415:881–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Harris KD, Henze DA, Hirase H, Leinekugel X, Dragoi G, Czurkó A, et al. Spike train dynamics predicts theta-related phase precession in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Nature. 2002;417:738–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chin W. Reservoir Engineering in Modern Oilfields. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Dobbertin H, Rijmen V, Sowa A, editors. Advanced Encryption Standard – AES: 4th International Conference, AES 2004, Bonn, Germany, May 10-12, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Azcue P, Muler N. Characterization of Value Functions. In: Muler N, editor. Stochastic Optimization in Insurance: A Dynamic Programming Approach. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 75–96.

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 Current Clinical Microbiology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. European Invasion: DNA Reveals The Origins Of Modern Europeans [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/european-invasion-dna-reveals-origins-modern-europeans/

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. Analysis of NASA’s Supplemental FY 1979 Budget Request. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Mar. Report No.: PSAD-79-59.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gullion DK. The study of interstate and intrastate mobility effects on student achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2009.

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. Pilon M. Amid Storm Recovery, Marathon Expo Opens Doors to Runners. New York Times. 2012 Nov 2;B10.

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	Current Clinical Microbiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Clin. Microbiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-5471
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