How to format your references using the Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure citation style

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

Nye MJ. Portraits of science. “The most versatile physicist of his generation.” Science 2002;296:49–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lumaret R, Ouazzani N. Plant genetics. Ancient wild olives in Mediterranean forests. Nature 2001;413:700.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Takayanagi M, Kurisaki I, Nagaoka M. Non-site-specific allosteric effect of oxygen on human hemoglobin under high oxygen partial pressure. Sci Rep 2014;4:4601.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Norimoto H, Matsumoto N, Miyawaki T, Matsuki N, Ikegaya Y. Subicular activation preceding hippocampal ripples in vitro. Sci Rep 2013;3:2696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Donham KJ, Thelin A. Agricultural Medicine. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Salgueiro CA. Multiheme Cytochromes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Padula F, Visioli A. FOPID Controller Additional Functionalities. In: Visioli A, editor. Advances in Robust Fractional Control, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 71–91.

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 Microscopy and Ultrastructure.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Check Out What Happens When You Submerge A Ping-Pong Ball In Liquid Nitrogen. IFLScience 2015.

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. The Post-Implementation Review. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sarkissian LN. An examination of course-level factors contributing to student success. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

de la MERCED MJ. A Flat First Day For Blue Apron. New York Times 2017:B4.

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	Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure
Abbreviation	J. Microsc. Ultrastruct.
ISSN (print)	2213-879X
Scope