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. Kreeger K. The learning curve. Nature. 2003;424:234–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Newman DK, Banfield JF. Geomicrobiology: how molecular-scale interactions underpin biogeochemical systems. Science. 2002;296:1071–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hirata A, Klein BJ, Murakami KS. The X-ray crystal structure of RNA polymerase from Archaea. Nature. 2008;451:851–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Asmerom Y, Cheng H, Thomas R, Hirschmann M, Edwards RL. Melting of the Earth’s lithospheric mantle inferred from protactinium-thorium-uranium isotopic data. Nature. 2000;406:293–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Billingsley J. Essentials of Mechatronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Markantonakis K, Mayes K, editors. Secure Smart Embedded Devices, Platforms and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Patterson C. The Role of Surgery in Pulmonary Hypertension. In: Madden B, editor. Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 147–70.

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. Scientists Develop Telescopic Contact Lenses That Can Zoom 3X [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-develop-telescopic-contact-lenses-can-zoom-3x/

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. First Look at Senior Executive Service Performance Awards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Aug. Report No.: FPCD-80-74.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. DeRose CT. Electro-optic polymers: Materials and devices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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. Schwartz J. Pardon My Sweat, Pass the Borscht. New York Times. 2017 Jun 1;D1.

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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