How to format your references using the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology citation style

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

Conard NJ. A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany. Nature 2009;459:248–252.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sedda L, Rogers DJ. The influence of the wind in the Schmallenberg virus outbreak in Europe. Sci Rep 2013;3:3361.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sobolevsky AI, Rosconi MP, Gouaux E. X-ray structure, symmetry and mechanism of an AMPA-subtype glutamate receptor. Nature 2009;462:745–756.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Suzuki S, Shuto T, Sato T, Kaneko M, Takada T, et al. Inhibition of post-translational N-glycosylation by HRD1 that controls the fate of ABCG5/8 transporter. Sci Rep 2014;4:4258.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Suárez A. Analysis and Design of Autonomous Microwave Circuits. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Lehner W. Web-Scale Data Management for the Cloud. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Cochez M, Terziyan V, Ermolayev V. Balanced Large Scale Knowledge Matching Using LSH Forest. In: Cardoso J, Guerra F, Houben G-J, Pinto AM, Velegrakis Y (editors). Semantic Keyword-based Search on Structured Data Sources: First COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference, IKC 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. pp. 36–50.

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 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

Blog post

Davis J. U.K. Is The Only G7 Country To INCREASE Fossil Fuel Subsidies. IFLScience.

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. U.S. Airports: Selected Airports’ Views on Federal Requirements. RCED-99-58R; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 29 January 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lamanna CA. The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change. Doctoral Dissertation; University of Arizona; 2012.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 9 Years For Chechen In Terror Case. New York Times, 18 January 2005, p. A8.

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	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1466-5026
ISSN (online)	1466-5034
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Microbiology General Medicine