How to format your references using the Current Microbiology citation style

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

Brophy PJ (2002) Microbiology. Subversion of Schwann cells and the leper’s bell. Science 296:862–863

A journal article with 2 authors

Orsini A, Falconi C (2014) Real-time monitoring of the solution growth of ZnO nanorods arrays by quartz microbalances and in-situ temperature sensors. Sci Rep 4:6285

A journal article with 3 authors

Muir G, Fleming CC, Schlötterer C (2000) Species status of hybridizing oaks. Nature 405:1016

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Arrasate M, Mitra S, Schweitzer ES, et al (2004) Inclusion body formation reduces levels of mutant huntingtin and the risk of neuronal death. Nature 431:805–810

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruppel W (2015) Wiley GAAP for Governments 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ancona V, Strickland E (2014) Trends in Contemporary Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Harman O (2012) War or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin’s Battle Over the Design of Virtue. In: Swan L, Gordon R, Seckbach J (eds) Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 87–110

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 Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Philae Sends Back First Images, But Problems Mean Its Mission Could Soon Be Over. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1974) Federal Organization for Science and Technology. 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

Baggio BG (2008) Integrating social software into blended -learning courses: A Delphi study of instructional -design processes. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Legal Victory for Families of Disabled Students. New York Times A14

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 Microbiology
Abbreviation	Curr. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0343-8651
ISSN (online)	1432-0991
Scope	Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology General Medicine