How to format your references using the Enzyme and Microbial Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 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

[1]

M. Wadman, Treatment: When less is more, Nature 528 (2015) S126-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Fragoso, T. Spencer, Physiographic control on the development of Spartina marshes, Science 322 (2008) 1064.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.A. Keller, M.R. Fisk, W.M. White, Isotopic evidence for Late Cretaceous plume-ridge interaction at the Hawaiian hotspot, Nature 405 (2000) 673–676.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Seelig, D. Soloveichik, D.Y. Zhang, E. Winfree, Enzyme-free nucleic acid logic circuits, Science 314 (2006) 1585–1588.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Cross, B. MacDonald, Nutrition in Institutions, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

P.M. Visakh, Y. Arao, eds., Flame Retardants: Polymer Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Cai, J. Niu, S. Parsons, Using Evolutionary Game-Theory to Analyse the Performance of Trading Strategies in a Continuous Double Auction Market, in: K. Tuyls, A. Nowe, Z. Guessoum, D. Kudenko (Eds.), Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III. Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning: 5th, 6th, and 7th European Symposium, ALAMAS 2005-2007 on Adaptive and Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 44–59.

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 Enzyme and Microbial Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Children With Prosthetics Could Soon Be Creating Their Own Lego Attachments, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/children-prosthetics-could-soon-be-creating-their-own-lego-attachments/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Safety: FAA Can Better Prepare General Aviation Pilots for Mountain Flying Risks, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Bao, Design enhancements in repetitive and interative learning control, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2010.

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

[1]

E. St. John Mandel, Brave New World, New York Times (2016) BR9.

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	Enzyme and Microbial Technology
Abbreviation	Enzyme Microb. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0141-0229
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology