How to format your references using the Food Microbiology citation style

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

Collins, F., 2010. Has the revolution arrived? Nature 464, 674–675.

A journal article with 2 authors

Polyak, V.J., Asmerom, Y., 2001. Late Holocene climate and cultural changes in the southwestern United States. Science 294, 148–151.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lederer, W.J., Hagen, B.M., Zhao, G., 2012. Cell biology. Superresolution subspace signaling. Science 336, 546–547.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lin, A., Fu, B., Guo, J., Zeng, Q., Dang, G., He, W., Zhao, Y., 2002. Co-seismic strike-slip and rupture length produced by the 2001 Ms 8.1 Central Kunlun earthquake. Science 296, 2015–2017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stewart, J.M., 2001. Managing for World Class Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Taber, K.S. (Ed.), 2009. Progressing Science Education: Constructing the Scientific Research Programme into the Contingent Nature of Learning Science, Science & Technology Education Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Um-e-Ghazia, Masood, R., Shibli, M.A., Bilal, M., 2012. Usage Control Model Specification in XACML Policy Language, in: Cortesi, A., Chaki, N., Saeed, K., Wierzchoń, S. (Eds.), Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management: 11th IFIP TC 8 International Conference, CISIM 2012, Venice, Italy, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 68–79.

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 Food Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. One Night Of Sleep Deprivation Can Affect The Genes That Control The Biological Clocks In Your Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1974. Federal Policy, Plans, and Organization for Science and Technology (No. 094579). 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

Moshfegh, N., 2014. The multidimensional wellbeing assessment: Preliminary validation in an Iranian sample (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Dominus, S., 2014. Blood in the Tracks. New York Times MM30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Collins, 2010; Polyak and Asmerom, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Polyak and Asmerom, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Microbiology
Abbreviation	Food Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0740-0020
Scope	Food Science Microbiology General Medicine