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

Janin J (2008) Biochemistry. Dicey assemblies. Science 319:165–166

A journal article with 2 authors

Lattimer JM, Prakash M (2004) The physics of neutron stars. Science 304:536–542

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz W, Sanderson W, Scherbov S (2008) The coming acceleration of global population ageing. Nature 451:716–719

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hommelsheim CM, Frantzeskakis L, Huang M, Ülker B (2014) PCR amplification of repetitive DNA: a limitation to genome editing technologies and many other applications. Sci Rep 4:5052

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rahman ROA, Rakhimov RZ, Rakhimova NR, Ojovan MI (2014) Cementitious Materials for Nuclear Waste Immobilization. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hong B, Meng X, Chen L, et al (2013) Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 18th International Conference, DASFAA 2013, International Workshops: BDMA, SNSM, SeCoP, Wuhan, China, April 22-25, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hughes D, Evans M, Morrow G, Keith S (2016) Creativities, Production Technologies and Song Authorship. In: Evans M, Morrow G, Keith S (eds) The New Music Industries: Disruption and Discovery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 63–80

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

Andrews R (2016) The Moon May Be Triggering The World’s Most Powerful Earthquakes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/moon-triggering-worlds-most-powerful-earthquakes/. 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 (2007) Sale of Magnetic Data Tapes Previously Used by the Government Presents a Low Security Risk. 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

Legaspi J (2010) Accelerated supported employment program: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Walsh MW (2010) New York Taxpayers Facing $200 Billion in Retiree Costs. New York Times B1

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

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