How to format your references using the Microbial Pathogenesis citation style

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

A.L. Haag, Algae bloom again, Nature 447 (2007) 520–521.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.K. Aanen, T. Bisseling, Microbiology. The birth of cooperation, Science 345 (2014) 29–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Tuomisto, K. Ruokolainen, M. Yli-Halla, Dispersal, environment, and floristic variation of western Amazonian forests, Science 299 (2003) 241–244.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Knoch, A. Pascual-Leone, K. Meyer, V. Treyer, E. Fehr, Diminishing reciprocal fairness by disrupting the right prefrontal cortex, Science 314 (2006) 829–832.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.F. Kroupa, Phase Lock Loops and Frequency Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

R. Purcell, R. Randall, eds., 21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture: Listening Spaces, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Marinč, R. Vlahu, General Issues on the Structure of Banking Industry, in: R. Vlahu (Ed.), The Economics of Bank Bankruptcy Law, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 85–96.

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 Pathogenesis.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Yep, That Viral Video Of A Shark Attacking A Porn Star Was Bullshit, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/yep-that-viral-video-of-a-shark-attacking-a-porn-star-was-bullshit/ (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, Telecommunications: Impact of Sports Programming Costs on Cable Television Rates, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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S. Douville, The lived experience of being a European wife to a U.S. Marine: A heuristic study, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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]

S. Dominus, In and Out of the Spotlight, a Mother-Daughter Act for the Ages, New York Times (2016) A13.

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 Pathogenesis
Abbreviation	Microb. Pathog.
ISSN (print)	0882-4010
Scope	Microbiology Infectious Diseases