How to format your references using the Journal of Bacteriology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Bacteriology. 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

Perry JW. 2009. Applied physics. Two beams squeeze feature sizes in optical lithography. Science 324:892–893.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oliveri P, Davidson EH. 2007. Development. Built to run, not fail. Science 315:1510–1511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma J-B, Ye K, Patel DJ. 2004. Structural basis for overhang-specific small interfering RNA recognition by the PAZ domain. Nature 429:318–322.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Galanty Y, Belotserkovskaya R, Coates J, Polo S, Miller KM, Jackson SP. 2009. Mammalian SUMO E3-ligases PIAS1 and PIAS4 promote responses to DNA double-strand breaks. Nature 462:935–939.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bma. 2013. Everyday Medical Ethics and Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kotler P. 2016. The Quintessence of Strategic Management: What You Really Need to Know to Survive in Business2nd ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sivertsgård R, Thorstad EB, Økland F, Finstad B, Bjørn PA, Jepsen N, Nordal T, McKinley RS. 2007. Effects of salmon lice infection and salmon lice protection on fjord migrating Atlantic salmon and brown trout post-smolts, p. 35–42. In Almeida, PR, Quintella, BR, Costa, MJ, Moore, A (eds.), Developments in Fish Telemetry: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Fish Telemetry held in Europe. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Journal of Bacteriology.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. Chile Has Generated So Much Solar Power It’s Giving It Away For Free. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved 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. 2008. Transportation Security: TSA Has Developed a Risk-Based Covert Testing Program, but Could Better Mitigate Aviation Security Vulnerabilities Identified Through Covert Tests. GAO-08-958. 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

Paredes J. 2017. Critical Support for Central American Newcomer Youth and Schooling in One Southern California High School. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon M. 2013. Quiet Campaigns Begin For Presidency of I.O.C. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Journal of Bacteriology
Abbreviation	J. Bacteriol.
ISSN (print)	0021-9193
ISSN (online)	1098-5530
Scope	Molecular Biology Microbiology

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