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

Eagleman DM. Neuroscience. The where and when of intention. Science 2004;303:1144–1146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toffelmier DA, Tyburczy JA. Electromagnetic detection of a 410-km-deep melt layer in the southwestern United States. Nature 2007;447:991–994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riedel IH, Kruse K, Howard J. A self-organized vortex array of hydrodynamically entrained sperm cells. Science 2005;309:300–303.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Stewart GS, Wang B, Bignell CR, Taylor AMR, Elledge SJ. MDC1 is a mediator of the mammalian DNA damage checkpoint. Nature 2003;421:961–966.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkataraman K. Design of Jigs, Fixtures and Press Tools. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Maier R. Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

He Y, Dong J, Bai R. The Evaluation Model of Financial Competitiveness in Telecom Enterprises. In: Zhou Q (editor). Advances in Applied Economics, Business and Development: International Symposium, ISAEBD 2011, Dalian, China, August 6-7, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. pp. 24–32.

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. Nearly 700 Million Cases Of Malaria Have Been Prevented Since 2000. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nearly-700-million-cases-malaria-have-been-prevented-2000/ (2015, 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. Airline Mergers: Issues Raised by the Proposed Merger of United and Continental Airlines. GAO-10-778T; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 27 May 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Englebrecht KM. Healing the invisible wounds: A grant proposal for female veterans suffering from PTSD. Doctoral Dissertation; California State University, Long Beach; 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

Feeney K. A Bit Late, but Bounteous. New York Times, 6 September 2009, p. NJ12.

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