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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Microbiology (JCM). 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

Moore J. 2003. Stealth ship sets sail for a quiet life fishing for data. Nature 423:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green DR, Kroemer G. 2004. The pathophysiology of mitochondrial cell death. Science 305:626–629.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Polanen V, Bergmann Tiest WM, Kappers AML. 2014. Target contact and exploration strategies in haptic search. Sci Rep 4:6254.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hochbaum AI, Chen R, Delgado RD, Liang W, Garnett EC, Najarian M, Majumdar A, Yang P. 2008. Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires. Nature 451:163–167.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chinesta F, Cescotto S, Cueto E, Lorong P. 2013. Natural Element Method for the Simulation of Structures and Processes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Esparza J. 2008. Unfoldings: A Partial-Order Approach to Model Checking. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang J, Xu J-X. 2012. Point Mapping under Cell Reference - A Two Scaled Numerical Method for Global Analysis, p. 107–137. In Sun, J-Q, Luo, ACJ (eds.), Global Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Clinical Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2016. Why We’re More Likely To Date Someone Who Has An Ex. 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. 1990. Guaranteed Student Loans: Credit Bureau Reporting Practices by Guaranty Agencies and Lenders. HRD-90-71BR. 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

Antoshin S. 2010. Modeling inflation expectations in the U.K. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Santora M. 2014. Gay Groups to March in St. Patrick’s Day Parade as a Ban Falls. 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 Clinical Microbiology
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0095-1137
ISSN (online)	1098-660X
Scope	Microbiology (medical)

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