How to format your references using the Microbes and Infection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microbes and Infection. 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

[1]

Friedman M. Journal club. A palaeontologist ponders how biodiversity is spread across the vertebrate tree of life. Nature 2009;462:255.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Morandi B, Carreira EM. Iron-catalyzed cyclopropanation in 6 M KOH with in situ generation of diazomethane. Science 2012;335:1471–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gagné J-P, Rouleau M, Poirier GG. Structural biology. PARP-1 activation--bringing the pieces together. Science 2012;336:678–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wu H, Li H, Kwok RTK, Zhao E, Sun JZ, Qin A, et al. A recyclable and reusable supported Cu(I) catalyzed azide-alkyne click polymerization. Sci Rep 2014;4:5107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Degner R, Leibl S. pH messen. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Dalang RC, Dozzi M, Russo F, editors. Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications VII: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2011. vol. 67. Basel: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jacobs JW, Richter JE. Role of H2RA and Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy in Treating Reflux Disease. In: Vaezi MF, editor. Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 71–91.

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 Microbes and Infection.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Yeasts Could Lead To More Diverse Lagers. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-yeasts-could-lead-more-diverse-lagers/ (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. Space Acquisitions: Space Based Infrared System Could Benefit from Technology Insertion Planning. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ports MO. Laterally associated proteins modulate α6 integrin cleavage, a permissive process utilized during cancer metastasis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

Grynbaum MM. Trump, in Latest Bout With Media, Conjures Physical Fight With a Foe. New York Times 2017:A10.

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	Microbes and Infection
Abbreviation	Microbes Infect.
ISSN (print)	1286-4579
Scope	Immunology Microbiology Infectious Diseases