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

Lellouch E (2006) Planetary science. Titan’s zoo of clouds. Science 311:186–187

A journal article with 2 authors

Jasny BR, Zahn LM (2011) Genome-sequencing anniversary. A celebration of the genome, part I. Science 331:546

A journal article with 3 authors

Gorzelak P, Głuchowski E, Salamon MA (2014) Reassessing the improbability of a muscular crinoid stem. Sci Rep 4:6049

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kenward B, Weir AAS, Rutz C, Kacelnik A (2005) Behavioural ecology: tool manufacture by naive juvenile crows. Nature 433:121

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glaser R (2015) Symmetry, Spectroscopy, and Crystallography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Baleanu D, Guvenc ZB, Machado JAT (2010) New Trends in Nanotechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Bornstein S, Han G-W, Hoot K, et al (2009) TGFβ-Mediated Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition and Metastasis in Skin and Head-and-Neck Cancer. In: Tachikawa T, Nose K, Ohmori T, Adachi M (eds) New Trends in the Molecular and Biological Basis for Clinical Oncology. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 69–80

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

Hale T (2016) Tortoise Receives A 3D-Printed Shell After It Was Burnt In A Forest Fire. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tortoise-receives-3d-printed-shell-after-it-was-burnt-forest-fire/. 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 (1976) Examination of the Treatment of Peer Reviewers’ Comments on Support for the “Individualized Science Instructional System” Project. 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

Lauterbach JR (2017) Golf in the Collective: Playing in Liminal Space. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Herrman J (2016) Who’s Too Young for an App? Musical.ly Testing the Limits. New York Times B1

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