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

Binzel RP: PLANETARY SCIENCE: Asteroids Come of Age. Science 2000;289:2065–2066.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibson DG, Venter JC: Synthetic biology: Construction of a yeast chromosome. Nature 2014;509:168–169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bourgeois C, Rocha B, Tanchot C: A role for CD40 expression on CD8+ T cells in the generation of CD8+ T cell memory. Science 2002;297:2060–2063.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matsumoto A, Comatas KE, Liu L, Stamler JS: Screening for nitric oxide-dependent protein-protein interactions. Science 2003;301:657–661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox C: An Introduction to LTE, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

Nambiar R, Poess M, editors: Selected Topics in Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: 4th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Costanzo M, Blandón-Gitlin I, Davis D: The Purpose, Content, and Effects of Expert Testimony on Interrogations and Confessions; in Bornstein BH, Miller MK (eds): Advances in Psychology and Law: Volume 2. Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp 141–178.

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

Carpineti A: Artificial Magnetic Shield Could Help In Terraforming Mars. IFLScience 2017;

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: Transportation Security Administration: High-Level Attention Needed to Strengthen Acquisition Function, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edwards CD: Migration: Lighting to evoke human responses 2010;

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

Jeffries MP: The Rage in Harlem, and Beyond. New York Times 2017;BR18.

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