How to format your references using the Microbial Cell Factories citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microbial Cell Factories. 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. Kohane IS. HEALTH CARE POLICY. Ten things we have to do to achieve precision medicine. Science. 2015;349:37–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Calabrese EJ, Baldwin LA. Toxicology rethinks its central belief. Nature. 2003;421:691–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wieman CE, Adams WK, Perkins KK. PHYSICS. PhET: simulations that enhance learning. Science. 2008;322:682–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Harrison TM, Blichert-Toft J, Müller W, Albarede F, Holden P, Mojzsis SJ. Heterogeneous Hadean hafnium: evidence of continental crust at 4.4 to 4.5 ga. Science. 2005;310:1947–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Russell DL, Arlow PC. Industrial Security. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Broy M, Grünbauer J, Harel D, Hoare T, editors. Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems Marktoberdorf, Germany 3–15 August 2004. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kress TM. Singing a Different Tune. In: Tobin K, Shady A, editors. Transforming Urban Education: Urban Teachers and Students Working Collaboratively. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014. p. 53–69.

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 Cell Factories.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Meteor Explodes Over Canada [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteor-explodes-over-canada/

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. Aircraft Maintenance: Additional FAA Oversight Needed of Aging Aircraft Repairs (Vol. I). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: RCED-91-91A.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Woerner LC. Complicated grief: A case study of pathological bereavement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2010.

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. St. John Kelly E. Crosstown Rivalry: Mothers Inc. New York Times. 1999 May 9;144.

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	Microbial Cell Factories
Abbreviation	Microb. Cell Fact.
ISSN (online)	1475-2859
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology