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

Anderson PW. A Gross-Pitaevskii treatment for supersolid helium. Science 2009;324:631–632.

A journal article with 2 authors

Higley MJ, Strittmatter SM. Neuroscience. Lynx for braking plasticity. Science 2010;330:1189–1190.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wessling M, Morcillo LG, Abdu S. Nanometer-thick lateral polyelectrolyte micropatterns induce macrosopic electro-osmotic chaotic fluid instabilities. Sci Rep 2014;4:4294.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Liu P, Zhang H, Lv M, Hu M, Li Z, et al. Enzymatic production of 5-aminovalerate from L-lysine using L-lysine monooxygenase and 5-aminovaleramide amidohydrolase. Sci Rep 2014;4:5657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basset P, Blokhina E, Galayko D. Electrostatic Kinetic Energy Harvesting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Herrero P, Panetto H, Meersman R, Dillon T (eds). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 Workshops: Confederated International Workshops: OTM Academy, Industry Case Studies Program, EI2N, INBAST, META4eS, OnToContent, ORM, SeDeS, SINCOM, and SOMOCO 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Goedecke M, Welsch J. Administrative Requirements for the Integration of Environmental Concerns and Demands of Climate Change into the Planning Process. In: Katzschner A, Waibel M, Schwede D, Katzschner L, Schmidt M, et al. (editors). Sustainable Ho Chi Minh City: Climate Policies for Emerging Mega Cities. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 75–88.

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

Andrew E. Why It’s Impossible To Actually Be A Vegetarian. 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. Hospital ADP Systems: VA Needs To Better Manage Its Decentralized System Before Expansion. IMTEC-87-28; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 24 July 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flores E. An exploratory study on widows’ experiences following the loss of their spouse. Doctoral Dissertation; California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

George N. Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible. New York Times, 17 February 2013, p. AR1.

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

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