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

Benton MJ. Evolution. How birds became birds. Science 345(6196), 508–509 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Catlow R, Fisher A. Marshall Stoneham (1940-2011). Nature 471(7338), 306 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

Matzke M, Matzke AJ, Kooter JM. RNA: guiding gene silencing. Science 293(5532), 1080–1083 (2001).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Srour M, Rivière J-B, Pham JMT et al. Mutations in DCC cause congenital mirror movements. Science 328(5978), 592 (2010).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smed J, Hakonen H. Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2006).

An edited book

Geroldinger A. Combinatorial Number Theory and Additive Group Theory. Birkhäuser, Basel (2009).

A chapter in an edited book

Peter-Koop A, Kollhoff S. Transition to School: Prior to School Mathematical Skills and Knowledge of Low-Achieving Children at the End of Grade 1. In: Mathematics and Transition to School: International Perspectives. Perry B, MacDonald A, Gervasoni A (Ed.), Springer, Singapore, 65–83 (2015).

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. ‘Facebook Announces Its Internet-Broadcasting Drone’ (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/facebook-announces-its-internet-broadcasting-drone/.

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. Actions Underway To Reduce Delinquencies in the Health Professions and Nursing Student Loan Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1982).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Michaels JL. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, (2009).

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

Kovaleski SF, Coscarelli J. Is Britney Ready to Stand Alone?, (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

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