How to format your references using the Environmental Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental 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	Download the output style file
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

Montgomery, S.L. (2001) Gained in the translation. Nature 409: 667.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sininger, Y.S. and Cone-Wesson, B. (2004) Asymmetric cochlear processing mimics hemispheric specialization. Science 305: 1581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moray, C., Game, E.T., and Maxted, N. (2014) Prioritising in situ conservation of crop resources: a case study of African cowpea (Vigna unguiculata). Sci Rep 4: 5247.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bose, S., Singh, R., Hanewich-Hollatz, M., Shen, C., Lee, C.-H., Dorfman, D.M., et al. (2013) Affinity flow fractionation of cells via transient interactions with asymmetric molecular patterns. Sci Rep 3: 2329.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lebowitz, E.R. and Omer, H. (2013) Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Acchar, W. (2015) Ceramic Materials from Coffee Bagasse Ash Waste, J. V. Dultra, E. (ed) Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lemle, E., Bomkamp, K., Williams, M.K., and Cutbirth, E. (2015) Interview with Brent N. Bushnell, Co-Founder and CEO of Two Bit Circus. In Two Bit Circus and the Future of Entertainment. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Bomkamp, K., Williams, M.K., and Cutbirth, E. (eds). Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 39–47.

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 Environmental Microbiology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016) This Lacewing Bacterium Kills Only Males. IFLScience.

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 (1978) Status of the Air Force’s Missile X Program, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Negussie, H. (2014) Integration of indigenous knowledge and cultural practices in early childhood care and education programs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: An exploratory case study.

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

Berkon, B. (2017) Baseball’s Data Revolution Is Elevating Game’s Defensive Stars. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Montgomery, 2001; Sininger and Cone-Wesson, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sininger and Cone-Wesson, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Bose et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Microbiology
Abbreviation	Environ. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1462-2912
ISSN (online)	1462-2920
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Microbiology