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]

Fitzsimmons A. Planetary science. Ice among the rocks. Science 2006;312:535–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mani RG, Kriisa A. Magneto-transport characteristics of a 2D electron system driven to negative magneto-conductivity by microwave photoexcitation. Sci Rep 2013;3:3478.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Veríssimo A, Cochrane MA, Souza C Jr. Ecology. National forests in the Amazon. Science 2002;297:1478.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bernstein MP, Dworkin JP, Sandford SA, Cooper GW, Allamandola LJ. Racemic amino acids from the ultraviolet photolysis of interstellar ice analogues. Nature 2002;416:401–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dijksterhuis GB. Multivariate Data Analysis in Sensory and Consumer Science. Trumbull, Connecticut, USA: Food & Nutrition Press, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Amusia MY. Theory of Heavy-Fermion Compounds: Theory of Strongly Correlated Fermi-Systems. vol. 182. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tirri K, Nokelainen P. Emotional Leadership Questionnaire. In: Tirri K, Nokelainen P, editors. Measuring Multiple Intelligences and Moral Sensitivities in Education, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011, p. 77–100.

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. 10 Deadliest Diseases in Human History. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/10-deadliest-diseases-human-history/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Possible Irregularities in the Operation of a Former Neighborhood Youth Corps Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rivera C. The Role of Privacy, Brand Labeling, and Cost on Condom Procurement: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Assess a University Policy. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

Gelles D, Kelly K, Abrams R, Corkery M. Walmart Chief Joins C.E.O. Protests. New York Times 2017:A1.

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

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