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

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

Chapman T: Breathing life into chemistry. Nature 2004;430:948–949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schindler DE, Hilborn R: Sustainability. Prediction, precaution, and policy under global change. Science 2015;347:953–954.

A journal article with 3 authors

Szlufarska I, Nakano A, Vashishta P: A crossover in the mechanical response of nanocrystalline ceramics. Science 2005;309:911–914.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Oberdoerffer S, Moita LF, Neems D, Freitas RP, Hacohen N, Rao A: Regulation of CD45 alternative splicing by heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein, hnRNPLL. Science 2008;321:686–691.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toutain L, Minaburo A: Local Networks and the Internet, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Caporarello L, Di Martino B, Martinez M, editors: Smart Organizations and Smart Artifacts: Fostering Interaction Between People, Technologies and Processes, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu H, Wang Y: Nonvolatile Memory Computing System; in Wang Y (ed): Design Exploration of Emerging Nano-scale Non-volatile Memory. New York, NY, Springer, 2014, pp 131–180.

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 Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Luntz S: How To Sex A Dinosaur. 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

Government Accountability Office: Air Force F-22 Embedded Computers, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tsai C-N: A simulation study of hierarchical wireless sensor networks 2012;

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

St. John Kelly E: The Storefront Psychic: A Peek Inside. New York Times 1995;131.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1464-1801
ISSN (online)	1660-2412
Scope	Biotechnology Molecular Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology