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. Young RF 3rd. Molecular biology. Secret weapon. Science. 2008;321:922–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gowers T, Nielsen M. Massively collaborative mathematics. Nature. 2009;461:879–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hanna RA, Campbell RL, Davies PL. Calcium-bound structure of calpain and its mechanism of inhibition by calpastatin. Nature. 2008;456:409–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Landry CR, Lemos B, Rifkin SA, Dickinson WJ, Hartl DL. Genetic properties influencing the evolvability of gene expression. Science. 2007;317:118–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dallas HJ. Mastering the Challenges of Leading change. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Andreescu T. Mathematical Olympiad Challenges. Gelca R, editor. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Scales R, Buman MP. Paradigms of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness. In: Mechanick JI, Kushner RF, editors. Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 29–40.

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. Fat Cells Have Been Efficiently Converted Into Liver Cells [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fat-cells-have-been-efficiently-converted-liver-cells/

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. Comments on S. 1961, a Bill Cited as the “Higher Education Amendments of 1980.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Jan. Report No.: B-197030.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Alajmi H. Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`shá, Bishr ibn Abī Khāzim, and al-Hujayjah [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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. Ruprecht T. In Too Deep. New York Times. 2011 Jul 7;MM50.

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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