How to format your references using the Journal of Basic Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Basic 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Elderfield, H., 2010. Climate. Seawater chemistry and climate. Science, 2010, 327, 1092–1093.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brooks, T., Smith, M.L., 2001. Ecology. Caribbean catastrophes. Science, 2001, 294, 1469–1471.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dieterich, J., Cayol, V., Okubo, P., 2000. The use of earthquake rate changes as a stress meter at Kilauea volcano. Nature, 2000, 408, 457–460.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

[1]

Greer, J.M., Puetz, J., Thomas, K.R., Capecchi, M.R., 2000. Maintenance of functional equivalence during paralogous Hox gene evolution. Nature, 2000, 403, 661–665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Allin, P., Hand, D.J., 2014. The Wellbeing of Nations., John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Charlier, B., Namur, O., Latypov, R., Tegner, C. (Eds.), 2015. Layered Intrusions., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zobrist, J., 2010. In: Bundi, U (Ed.), Alpine Waters, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 95–118.

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 Basic Microbiology.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz, S., 2017. Uranium-Respiring Bacteria May Have Produced Mining Resources. IFLScience, 2017.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 2006. Rail Transit: Additional Federal Leadership Would Enhance FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program., 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

[1]

McGrath, P.M., 2013. Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008: A Policy Analysis. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

Saslow, L., 2006. Drama Students Face A Change of Scene. New York Times, 2006, 14LI7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Basic Microbiology
Abbreviation	J. Basic Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0233-111X
ISSN (online)	1521-4028
Scope	Genetics Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology General Medicine

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