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]

Holmes EC. Virology. 1918 and all that. Science 2004;303:1787–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Longo VD, Finch CE. Evolutionary medicine: from dwarf model systems to healthy centenarians? Science 2003;299:1342–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liljeroth P, Repp J, Meyer G. Current-induced hydrogen tautomerization and conductance switching of naphthalocyanine molecules. Science 2007;317:1203–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shav-Tal Y, Darzacq X, Shenoy SM, Fusco D, Janicki SM, Spector DL, et al. Dynamics of single mRNPs in nuclei of living cells. Science 2004;304:1797–800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Silvapulle MJ, Sen PK. Constrained Statistical Inference: Inequality, Order, and Shape Restrictions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Acharjya DP, Dehuri S, Sanyal S, editors. Computational Intelligence for Big Data Analysis: Frontier Advances and Applications. vol. 19. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Delle Fave A, Massimini F, Bassi M. Instruments and Methods in Flow Research. In: Massimini F, Bassi M, editors. Psychological Selection and Optimal Experience Across Cultures: Social Empowerment through Personal Growth, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 59–87.

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]

Taub B. SeaWorld Orca Beached Itself To Avoid “Getting Beat Up” By Other Whales. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seaworld-orca-beached-itself-to-avoid-getting-beat-up-by-other-whales/ (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. Higher Education: Information on Minority-Targeted Scholarships. 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

[1]

Lee S. Control-display alignment modulates dimensional salience. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Feeney K. Spanish Cuisine (From Scratch). New York Times 2007:NJ14.

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