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

Edwards RL (2010) Climate change. Ice age rhythms. Science 327:790–791

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruxin J, Habinshuti A (2011) Crowd control in Rwanda. Nature 474:572–573

A journal article with 3 authors

Pertea M, Salzberg SL, Gardner MJ (2000) Finding genes in Plasmodium falciparum. Nature 404:34; discussion 34-5

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Du X, Wen J, Wang Y, et al (2018) Hippo/Mst signalling couples metabolic state and immune function of CD8α+ dendritic cells. Nature 558:141–145

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perera AH, Buse LJ (2014) Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gorb L, Kuz’min V, Muratov E (2014) Application of Computational Techniques in Pharmacy and Medicine. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Bolshakov IA, Galicia-Haro SN (2006) Featuring of Sex-Dependent Nouns in Databases Oriented to European Languages. In: Sojka P, Kopeček I, Pala K (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue: 9th International Conference, TSD 2006, Brno, Czech Republic, September 11-15, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–44

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) Could Russian Sanctions Restrict US Access To The International Space Station? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-russian-sanctions-restrict-us-access-international-space-station/. 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 (2009) Federal Aviation Administration: Human Capital System Incorporates Many Leading Practices, but Improving Employees’ Satisfaction with Their Workplace Remains a Challenge. 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

Powell TJ (2012) Saxophone sonatas: 1980–2010. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Crow K (2001) The Mayors Slept Here: Gracie Mansion Is Just the Latest. New York Times 144

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