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

Lastoskie C. Chemistry. Caging carbon dioxide. Science 2010;330:595–596.

A journal article with 2 authors

Insel TR, Sahakian BJ. Drug research: a plan for mental illness. Nature 2012;483:269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lia G, Michel B, Allemand J-F. Polymerase exchange during Okazaki fragment synthesis observed in living cells. Science 2012;335:328–331.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Viswanath V, Story GM, Peier AM, Petrus MJ, Lee VM, et al. Opposite thermosensor in fruitfly and mouse. Nature 2003;423:822–823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartmann AK, Weigt M. Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Kaufer A, Kerber F (eds). The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 23-26 January 2007. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Walker LEA, Pann JM, Shapiro DL, Van Hasselt VB. Competency Restoration Programs. In: Pann JM, Shapiro DL, Van Hasselt VB (editors). Best Practices for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 51–55.

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

Taub B. CRISPR Has Been Used To Edit Genes In Humans For The First Time. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/crispr-used-edit-genes-humans-first-time/ (2016, accessed 30 October 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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Customs Is Effectively Managing Its Year 2000 Program. T-AIMD-99-85; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 24 February 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tosti CL. Quantification of dispersed and aggregated iron in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging. Doctoral Dissertation; Columbia University; 2009.

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

Hodara S. Soaring on Paper Wings. New York Times, 5 October 2014, p. WE9.

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