How to format your references using the Folia Microbiologica citation style

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

Buffett BA (2010) Geophysics. The enigmatic inner core. Science 328:982–983

A journal article with 2 authors

Deming D, Seager S (2009) Light and shadow from distant worlds. Nature 462:301–306

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz W, Muttarak R, Striessnig E (2014) Environment and development. Universal education is key to enhanced climate adaptation. Science 346:1061–1062

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Changela A, Chen K, Xue Y, et al (2003) Molecular basis of metal-ion selectivity and zeptomolar sensitivity by CueR. Science 301:1383–1387

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones DW (2014) Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hart JG (ed) (2009) Who One Is: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Satoh M, Yamane-Ohnuki N, Mori K, et al (2006) Generation of an industrially ideal host cell line for producing completely-defucosylated antibody with enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). In: Iijima S, Nishijima K-I (eds) Animal Cell Technology: Basic & Applied Aspects. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 39–46

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 Folia Microbiologica.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Yes, Eastern Coyotes Are Hybrids, But The ‘Coywolf’ Is Not A Thing. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/yes-eastern-coyotes-are-hybrids-coywolf-not-thing/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2009) Public Transportation: Better Data Needed to Assess Length of New Starts Process, and Options Exist to Expedite Project Development. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Van Fossen L (2015) The communicative use of iconic face drawings to express emotional and evaluative statements in persons with aphasia. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Signer M (2017) Charlottesville Will Move On. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buffett 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Deming and Seager 2009; Buffett 2010).

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

Two authors: (Deming and Seager 2009)
Three or more authors: (Changela et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Folia Microbiologica
Abbreviation	Folia Microbiol. (Praha)
ISSN (print)	0015-5632
ISSN (online)	1874-9356
Scope	Microbiology General Medicine