How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of 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

Flückiger J (2008) Climate change. Did you say “fast”? Science 321:650–651

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts RG, Sutikna T (2013) Michael John Morwood (1950-2013). Nature 500:401

A journal article with 3 authors

Walker JR, Corpina RA, Goldberg J (2001) Structure of the Ku heterodimer bound to DNA and its implications for double-strand break repair. Nature 412:607–614

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jamali M, Kwon JH, Seo S-M, et al (2013) Spin wave nonreciprocity for logic device applications. Sci Rep 3:3160

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fiske JR, Fiske CA (2009) The Big Book of Benefit Auctions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tymieniecka A-T (2005) The Enigma of Good and Evil; The Moral Sentiment in Literature. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Held L, Sabanés Bové D (2014) Likelihood Inference in Multiparameter Models. In: Sabanés Bové D (ed) Applied Statistical Inference: Likelihood and Bayes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 123–165

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 Indian Journal of Microbiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) Astronomers Discover Incredibly Rare Double-Ringed Galaxy. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1999) Financial Management: Briefing on the Federal Aviation Administration Property, Plant, and Equipment Accountability Review. 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

Lim K (2017) An Inquiry of How Art Education Policies are Reflected in Art Teacher Preparation: Examining the Standards for Visual Arts and Art Teacher Certification. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Kelly R (1993) Desire Under the Waves. New York Times 714

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	Indian Journal of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0046-8991
ISSN (online)	0973-7715
Scope	Microbiology