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

Porter SM (2007) Seawater chemistry and early carbonate biomineralization. Science 316:1302

A journal article with 2 authors

Finch CE, Crimmins EM (2004) Inflammatory exposure and historical changes in human life-spans. Science 305:1736–1739

A journal article with 3 authors

Ang YS, Ma Z, Zhang C (2014) Chiral-like tunneling of electrons in two-dimensional semiconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Sci Rep 4:3780

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Butov LV, Lai CW, Ivanov AL, et al (2002) Towards Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in potential traps. Nature 417:47–52

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hayward A, Weare F (2010) Steel Detailers’ Manual. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Klimpel S, Mehlhorn H (eds) (2014) Bats (Chiroptera) as Vectors of Diseases and Parasites: Facts and Myths. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Li SE, Deng K (2014) Recent Advances in Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control Method. In: Liu L, Zhu Q, Cheng L, et al. (eds) Applied Methods and Techniques for Mechatronic Systems: Modelling, Identification and Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 79–97

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) Three Trillion Trees Live On Earth, But There Would Be Twice As Many Without Humans. In: IFLScience. 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 (2010) Campaign Finance Reform: Additional Information Related to Program Goals in Two States Offering Full Public Funding for Political Candidates (GAO-10-391SP), an E-supplement to GAO-10-390. 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

Jones C (2015) Evolutionary changes in development associated with a transition in larval nutritional mode in spiralians. 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

Ayittey GBN (2012) After Revolutions, Beware of Crocodiles. New York Times A23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Porter 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Finch and Crimmins 2004; Porter 2007).

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

Two authors: (Finch and Crimmins 2004)
Three or more authors: (Butov et al. 2002)

About the journal

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