How to format your references using the Gut Pathogens citation style

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

1. McNally RJ. Are we winning the war against posttraumatic stress disorder? Science. 2012;336:872–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Williams SR, Stuart GJ. Dependence of EPSP efficacy on synapse location in neocortical pyramidal neurons. Science. 2002;295:1907–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nielsen H, Westhof E, Johansen S. An mRNA is capped by a 2’, 5’ lariat catalyzed by a group I-like ribozyme. Science. 2005;309:1584–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tanovic A, Samel SA, Essen L-O, Marahiel MA. Crystal structure of the termination module of a nonribosomal peptide synthetase. Science. 2008;321:659–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sahinoglu M. Cyber-Risk Informatics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Marshall AW. Life Distributions: Structure of Nonparametric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families. Olkin I, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Andes DR, Dismukes WE. Azoles. In: Kauffman CA, Pappas PG, Sobel JD, Dismukes WE, editors. Essentials of Clinical Mycology. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 61–93.

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 Gut Pathogens.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Some Shell-Builders Are Benefiting From Ocean Acidification [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/some-shellbuilders-are-benefiting-from-ocean-acidification/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Follow up Review of Automatic Data Processing Activities Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Nov. Report No.: B-162407(6).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Guedez A. Developing Correlations for Velocity Models in Vertical Transverse Isotropic Media: Bakken Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

1. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2016 Oct 28;MM18.

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	Gut Pathogens
Abbreviation	Gut Pathog.
ISSN (online)	1757-4749
Scope	Microbiology Parasitology Virology Gastroenterology Infectious Diseases

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