How to format your references using the Microbial Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microbial 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

Lewis, S.L. (2014) Scientist-versus-activist debates mislead the public. Nature 506: 409.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loayza, D. and De Lange, T. (2003) POT1 as a terminal transducer of TRF1 telomere length control. Nature 423: 1013–1018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clark, T.A., Sugnet, C.W., and Ares, M., Jr (2002) Genomewide analysis of mRNA processing in yeast using splicing-specific microarrays. Science 296: 907–910.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Heldwein, E.E., Lou, H., Bender, F.C., Cohen, G.H., Eisenberg, R.J., and Harrison, S.C. (2006) Crystal structure of glycoprotein B from herpes simplex virus 1. Science 313: 217–220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saccone, C. and Pesole, G. (2005) Handbook of Comparative Genomics, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Antoine, J.-P. (2009) Partial Inner Product Spaces: Theory and Applications, Trapani, C. (ed) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vulpetti, G., Johnson, L., and Matloff, G.L. (2015) Non-Rocket In-Space Propulsion. In Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel. Johnson, L. and Matloff, G.L. (eds). New York, NY: Springer, pp. 35–44.

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 Microbial Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) 21 Critically Endangered Birds Discovered Stuffed Inside Bottles By Smugglers. IFLScience.

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 (2008) Bureau of Indian Education Schools: Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Help Some Tribal Groups Implement Academic Accountability Systems, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hawkins, A.J. (2013) Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011) Pond or Rink, Rangers Create Their Own Winter Classic. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Loayza and De Lange, 2003; Lewis, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Loayza and De Lange, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Heldwein et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Microbial Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Microb. Biotechnol.
ISSN (online)	1751-7915
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology