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

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

Eyre-Walker, A. 2006. Evolution. Size does not matter for mitochondrial DNA. Science 312, 537–538.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jutzi, M., and Asphaug, E. 2015. COMETARY NUCLEI. The shape and structure of cometary nuclei as a result of low-velocity accretion. Science 348, 1355–1358.

A journal article with 3 authors

Humanes-Valera, D., Foffani, G., and Aguilar, J. 2014. Increased cortical responses to forepaw stimuli immediately after peripheral deafferentation of hindpaw inputs. Sci. Rep. 4, 7278.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhao, Y. et al. 2011. An expanded palette of genetically encoded Ca²⁺ indicators. Science 333, 1888–1891.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pike, A. 2015. Origination. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Arezes, P. ed. 2016. Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors , July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ivanecký, J., Mehlhase, S., and Mieskes, M. 2011. An Intelligent House Control Using Speech Recognition with Integrated Localization, pp. 51–62. In Wichert, R. and Eberhardt, B., eds, Ambient Assisted Living: 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January 25–26, 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Anti-Psychotic Drugs Designed To Treat Mental Illness Are Being Used To Manage Challenging Behaviour. 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. 2013. National Airspace System: Improved Budgeting Could Help FAA Better Determine Future Operations and Maintenance Priorities. 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

Kang, H. 2006. Essays on Methodologies in Contingent Valuation and the Sustainable Management of Common Pool Resources.

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

Cooper, M. 2017. Hurricane Closes Houston Arts Center. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Eyre-Walker, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Eyre-Walker, 2006; Jutzi and Asphaug, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Jutzi and Asphaug, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Microbiology
ISSN (print)	1225-8873
ISSN (online)	1976-3794
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