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

Kahan, D.M. Social Science. A Risky Science Communication Environment for Vaccines. Science 2013, 342, 53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mercer, J.; Helenius, A. Vaccinia Virus Uses Macropinocytosis and Apoptotic Mimicry to Enter Host Cells. Science 2008, 320, 531–535.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lishko, P.V.; Botchkina, I.L.; Kirichok, Y. Progesterone Activates the Principal Ca2+ Channel of Human Sperm. Nature 2011, 471, 387–391.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ito, K.; Bernardi, R.; Morotti, A.; Matsuoka, S.; Saglio, G.; Ikeda, Y.; Rosenblatt, J.; Avigan, D.E.; Teruya-Feldstein, J.; Pandolfi, P.P. PML Targeting Eradicates Quiescent Leukaemia-Initiating Cells. Nature 2008, 453, 1072–1078.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen, G.A.; Jackson, P. Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005; ISBN 9780470021095.

An edited book

Retinal Angiography and Optical Coherence Tomography; Arevalo, J.F., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2009; ISBN 9780387689869.

A chapter in an edited book

Welfens, P.J.J.; Perret, J.K.; Irawan, T.; Yushkova, E. New Indicator Concept. In Towards Global Sustainability: Issues, New Indicators and Economic Policy; Perret, J.K., Irawan, T., Yushkova, E., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 47–55 ISBN 9783319186658.

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

O`Callaghan, J. Humans May Have An In-Built GPS, Based On Discovery Of “Speed Cells” In Rats Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/discovery-speed-cells-rats-suggests-we-have-built-gps/ (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 Aviation Research and Development: FAA Could Improve How It Develops Its Portfolio and Reports Its Activities; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2017;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shah, N. High Performance Cryptography for Electronic Product Code for Internet of Things Applications. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 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

Hui, M. In Organic-Hungry Hong Kong, Corn as High as an Elevator’s Climb. New York Times 2012, A6.

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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