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]

D.T. Blake, Neuroscience: how brains learn to control machines, Nature 483 (2012) 284–285.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Wang, A. Fernandez-Martinez, Materials science. Order from disorder, Science 337 (2012) 812–813.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Serganov, L. Huang, D.J. Patel, Coenzyme recognition and gene regulation by a flavin mononucleotide riboswitch, Nature 458 (2009) 233–237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Veneti, J.K. Bentley, T. Koana, H.R. Braig, G.D.D. Hurst, A functional dosage compensation complex required for male killing in Drosophila, Science 307 (2005) 1461–1463.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.T. Dao, M.-C. Ho Ba Tho, Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H. Holden, R. Piene, eds., The Abel Prize: 2003–2007 The First Five Years, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.L. Ellingsæter, Nordic Politicization of Parenthood: Unfolding Hybridization?, in: M. Richter, S. Andresen (Eds.), The Politicization of Parenthood: Shifting Private and Public Responsibilities in Education and Child Rearing, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 39–53.

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, El Niño Is Over, But Has Left Its Mark Across The World, IFLScience (2016).

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, Telephone Communications: Bell Operating Company Entry Into New Lines of Business, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

I. Hernandez, Strong-DISM: A First Attempt to a Dynamically Typed Assembly Language (D-TAL), Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2017.

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]

J. Koblin, Hitting Delay When News Cuts Too Close, New York Times (2016) AR19.

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