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]

Feinberg AP. Phenotypic plasticity and the epigenetics of human disease. Nature 2007;447:433–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Burns JA, Cuzzi JN. Planetary science. Our local astrophysical laboratory. Science 2006;312:1753–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Freitas R, Zhang G, Cohn MJ. Evidence that mechanisms of fin development evolved in the midline of early vertebrates. Nature 2006;442:1033–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nakamura F, Sakaki M, Yamanaka Y, Tamaru S, Suzuki T, Maeno Y. Electric-field-induced metal maintained by current of the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4. Sci Rep 2013;3:2536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Burnett R, Brunstrom A, Nilsson AG. Perspectives on Multimedia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Liu L, Zhu Q, Cheng L, Wang Y, Zhao D, editors. Applied Methods and Techniques for Mechatronic Systems: Modelling, Identification and Control. vol. 452. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Teng Z, Zhang B. An Optimization Method of Fusing Multiple Decisions in Object Detection. In: Peng W-C, Wang H, Bailey J, Tseng VS, Ho TB, Zhou Z-H, et al., editors. Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2014 International Workshops: DANTH, BDM, MobiSocial, BigEC, CloudSD, MSMV-MBI, SDA, DMDA-Health, ALSIP, SocNet, DMBIH, BigPMA,Tainan, Taiwan, May 13-16, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 29–35.

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. Black-Hole-Scope Could Reveal the Mystery of how Cosmic Jets Form. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/black-hole-scope-could-reveal-mystery-how-cosmic-jets-form/ (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. Highway Research: Systematic Selection and Evaluation Processes Needed for Research Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Churney K. Drawing and multimodality communication training as an effective treatment option for individuals with nonfluent aphasia. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Lipton E, Eder S, Protess B. Ethical Hazards Dot the President’s Fairways. 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	Medicine in Microecology
ISSN (print)	2590-0978
Scope

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