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]

Zuber MT. The crust and mantle of Mars. Nature 2001;412:220–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ward LD, Kellis M. Response to comment on “Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions.” Science 2013;340:682.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Heuer AH, Jia CL, Lagerlöf KPD. The core structure of basal dislocations in deformed sapphire (alpha-Al₂O₃). Science 2010;330:1227–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Subramaniam AB, Abkarian M, Mahadevan L, Stone HA. Colloid science: non-spherical bubbles. Nature 2005;438:930.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Palmquist SR. Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Perdew GH, Heuvel JPV, Peters JM, editors. Regulation of Gene Expression: Molecular Mechanisms. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Agüero R, Choque J, Muñoz L. Multi-hop Extensions to Heterogeneous Access Network Selection. In: Chatzimisios P, Verikoukis C, Santamaría I, Laddomada M, Hoffmann O, editors. Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems: Second International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 43–56.

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]

Luntz S. Vitamin D May Protect Against Cognitive Decline. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/vitamin-d-may-protect-brain-health/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Telecommunications: Metropolitan Area Acquisition Program Implementation and Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kim SB. Model uncertainty and model averaging in the estimation of benchmark dose. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Vecsey G. U.S. Roster Soap Opera Settled on Daytime TV. New York Times 2010:B12.

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)