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

Rørth, P. (2014) Cell biology. Reach out and touch someone. Science 343: 848–849.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grubb, M.S. and Burrone, J. (2010) Activity-dependent relocation of the axon initial segment fine-tunes neuronal excitability. Nature 465: 1070–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verschure, P.F.M.J., Voegtlin, T., and Douglas, R.J. (2003) Environmentally mediated synergy between perception and behaviour in mobile robots. Nature 425: 620–624.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gauthier-Clerc, M., Le Maho, Y., Clerquin, Y., Drault, S., and Handrich, Y. (2000) Penguin fathers preserve food for their chicks. Nature 408: 928–929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, F.-C., Yu, B., Wei, J.-J., and Kawaguchi, Y. (2011) Turbulent Drag Reduction by Surfactant Additives, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Wu, A. (2008) Granular Dynamic Theory and Its Applications, Sun, Y. (ed) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, X., Fan, Z., Wang, J., and Liao, H. (2016) 3D Augmented Reality Based Orthopaedic Interventions. In Computational Radiology for Orthopaedic Interventions. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics. Zheng, G. and Li, S. (eds). Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 71–90.

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

Luntz, S. (2015) Rats Will Choose Friendship Over Food. 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 (1974) Federal Library Support Programs: Progress and Problems, 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

Young, W. (2012) Diamagnetism of a supersonic rotating magnetized plasma.

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

Lichtblau, E. (2015) Maryland Man Accused of Tapping Money From ISIS Operatives for a U.S. Attack. New York Times A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rørth, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Grubb and Burrone, 2010; Rørth, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Grubb and Burrone, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Gauthier-Clerc et al., 2000)

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