How to format your references using the Medicine in Microecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medicine in Microecology. 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]

Money NP. Obituary: Cecil Terence Ingold (1905-2010). Nature 2010;465:1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Devos DP, Reynaud EG. Evolution. Intermediate steps. Science 2010;330:1187–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

O’Nions K, Pitman R, Marsh C. Science of nuclear warheads. Nature 2002;415:853–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Povich MS, Raymond JC, Jones GH, Uzzo M, Ko Y-K, Feldman PD, et al. Doubly ionized carbon observed in the plasma tail of comet Kudo-Fujikawa. Science 2003;302:1949–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Perrin V. MRI Techniques. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Hevner A. Design Research in Information Systems: Theory and Practice. vol. 22. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nemerson Y, Taubman MB. Thrombosis. In: Rosendorff C, editor. Essential Cardiology: Principles and Practice, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2006, p. 77–83.

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 Medicine in Microecology.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. SpaceX Will Fly A Reusable Rocket For The First Time Later This Year. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-will-fly-a-reusable-rocket-for-the-first-time-later-this-year/ (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. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 12. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Castro R. Faculty unions and their effects on university shared governance. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Johnson G. Feeding the Particle Physics Beast. New York Times 2016:D6.

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	Medicine in Microecology
ISSN (print)	2590-0978
Scope