How to format your references using the Human Microbiome Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Microbiome Journal. 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

[1]

Cobb M. Wondrous order. Nature 2001;413:779.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Weiner HL, Selkoe DJ. Inflammation and therapeutic vaccination in CNS diseases. Nature 2002;420:879–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen J, Weidner DJ, Vaughan MT. The strength of Mg(0.9)Fe(0.1)SiO3 perovskite at high pressure and temperature. Nature 2002;419:824–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bashir T, Dorrello NV, Amador V, Guardavaccaro D, Pagano M. Control of the SCF(Skp2-Cks1) ubiquitin ligase by the APC/C(Cdh1) ubiquitin ligase. Nature 2004;428:190–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Peterson RL. Trading on Sentiment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

MacGregor SP, Carleton T, editors. Sustaining Innovation: Collaboration Models for a Complex World. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Destexhe A, Rudolph-Lilith M. Integrative Properties in the Presence of Noise. In: Rudolph-Lilith M, editor. Neuronal Noise, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012, p. 111–83.

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 Human Microbiome Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti C. A Few Awesome Facts About Your Own Body That You Probably Didn’t Know. IFLScience 2016.

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. Transportation-Disadvantaged Seniors: Efforts to Enhance Senior Mobility Could Benefit from Additional Guidance and Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Coughenour BM. Photovoltaic concentrator optical system design: Solar energy engineering from physics to field. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2014.

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]

Lovell J. The World, Still Spinning. New York Times 2013:MM36.

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	Human Microbiome Journal
ISSN (print)	2452-2317
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)