How to format your references using the Fermentation citation style

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

Sukhdev, P. Sustainability: The Corporate Climate Overhaul. Nature 2012, 486, 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koechlin, E.; Hyafil, A. Anterior Prefrontal Function and the Limits of Human Decision-Making. Science 2007, 318, 594–598.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, Y.K.; Lee, H.; Park, J.Y. Tandem-Structured, Hot Electron Based Photovoltaic Cell with Double Schottky Barriers. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ternes, M.; Lutz, C.P.; Hirjibehedin, C.F.; Giessibl, F.J.; Heinrich, A.J. The Force Needed to Move an Atom on a Surface. Science 2008, 319, 1066–1069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carrasco, R.A.; Johnston, M. Non-Binary Error Control Coding for Wireless Communication and Data Storage; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2008; ISBN 9780470740415.

An edited book

Ettore Majorana Scientific Papers: On Occasion of the Centenary of His Birth; Bassani, G.F., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; ISBN 9783540480914.

A chapter in an edited book

Marcus, D.A.; Deodhar, A. Assessment and Diagnosis. In Fibromyalgia: A Practical Clinical Guide; Marcus, D.A., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2011; pp. 41–51 ISBN 9781441916082.

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 Fermentation.

Blog post

Davis, J. New Species Of Monkey Discovered In The Remote Peruvian Rainforest Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-titi-monkey-discovered-remote-amazonian-peru/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems to Support Federal Welfare Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perkins, J. “Inside of Each Story Was a Piece of My Story”: Applied Folklore Addressing Stigma around Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN, 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

Kenigsberg, B. Film Series. New York Times 2017, C22.

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	Fermentation
ISSN (online)	2311-5637
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