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

Gibbs RA (2011) Genome-sequencing anniversary. Bringing genomics and genetics back together. Science 331:548

A journal article with 2 authors

Ringe D, Petsko GA (2008) Biochemistry. How enzymes work. Science 320:1428–1429

A journal article with 3 authors

Komarova NL, Levy DN, Wodarz D (2013) Synaptic transmission and the susceptibility of HIV infection to anti-viral drugs. Sci Rep 3:2103

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liljegren SJ, Ditta GS, Eshed Y, et al (2000) SHATTERPROOF MADS-box genes control seed dispersal in Arabidopsis. Nature 404:766–770

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wood P (2013) Western Art and the Wider World. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Chai J (2011) Deformation Analysis in Soft Ground Improvement. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Sato T, Kameya Y (2008) New Advances in Logic-Based Probabilistic Modeling by PRISM. In: Raedt LD, Frasconi P, Kersting K, Muggleton S (eds) Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming: Theory and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 118–155

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

Davis J (2017) Protein From Mussel Glue Used To Help Prevent Scarring. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/protein-from-mussel-glue-used-to-help-prevent-scarring/. 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 (1989) Space Funding: NASA and DOD Activities for Fiscal Years 1981 Through 1989. 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

Bankapura S (2016) Packet adaptive routing in communication network. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hui M (2012) In Organic-Hungry Hong Kong, Corn as High as an Elevator’s Climb. New York Times A6

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