How to format your references using the Future Microbiology citation style

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

Lander GH. Physics. Sensing electrons on the edge. Science. 301(5636), 1057–1059 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Kiani R, Shadlen MN. Representation of confidence associated with a decision by neurons in the parietal cortex. Science. 324(5928), 759–764 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghodbane R, Raoult D, Drancourt M. Dramatic reduction of culture time of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sci. Rep. 4, 4236 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peplowski PN, Evans LG, Hauck SA 2nd, et al. Radioactive elements on Mercury’s surface from MESSENGER: implications for the planet’s formation and evolution. Science. 333(6051), 1850–1852 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jakubith M. Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Pinedo HM, Smorenburg CH, editors. Drugs Affecting Growth of Tumours. Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Van M, Kang H-J, Ro Y-S. A Robust Fault Detection and Isolation Scheme for Robot Manipulators Based on Neural Networks. In: Advanced Intelligent Computing: 7th International Conference, ICIC 2011, Zhengzhou, China, August 11-14, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Huang D-S, Gan Y, Bevilacqua V, Figueroa JC (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 25–32 (2012).

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 Future Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Modified HIV Cures Rare Genetic Disorder In Children [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/modified-hiv-cures-rare-genetic-disorder-children/.

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. NASA: Major Management Challenges. 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

Lofton CD. Mid-Career Transitions: A Qualitative Study Examining the Developmental Relationships, Attitudes, Networks, and Strategies of Frontline Workers that Seek Career Development and Advancement. (2012).

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

Williams J. Robert Caro Nears End Of Research on L.B.J. New York Times, C3 (2017).

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	Future Microbiology
Abbreviation	Future Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1746-0913
ISSN (online)	1746-0921
Scope	Microbiology Microbiology (medical)