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. Govindan R. Cancer. Attack of the clones. Science. 2014;346:169–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mabuchi H, Doherty AC. Cavity quantum electrodynamics: coherence in context. Science. 2002;298:1372–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Skipper M, Dhand R, Campbell P. Presenting ENCODE. Nature. 2012;489:45.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zalmout IS, Sanders WJ, Maclatchy LM, Gunnell GF, Al-Mufarreh YA, Ali MA, et al. New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys. Nature. 2010;466:360–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shinohara H, Tagmatarchis N. Endohedral Metallofullerenes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Sato M, Hanawa T, Müller MS, Chapman BM, Supinski BR de, editors. Beyond Loop Level Parallelism in OpenMP: Accelerators, Tasking and More: 6th Internationan Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2010, Tsukuba, Japan, June 14-16, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Srinivasan S, Saghir MZ. CFD Studies in Thermodiffusion. In: Saghir MZ, editor. Thermodiffusion in Multicomponent Mixtures: Thermodynamic, Algebraic, and Neuro-Computing Models. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 65–76.

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. Luntz S. Weather Detected On A World With Sapphire And Ruby Clouds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/weather-detected-on-a-world-with-sapphire-and-ruby-clouds/

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 Transportation: Progress of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Sep. Report No.: T-NSIAD-99-243.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Choi Y-J. Function of Commissureless and Related Genes in Drosophila Neural Development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2003.

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. Duerden J. Amid Political Strain, Game’s Tension Rises. New York Times. 2016 Sep 1;B17.

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