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]

R.F. Service, Problem solved* (*sort of), Science. 321 (2008) 784–786.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Field, R. Fullagar, Archaeology and Australian megafauna, Science. 294 (2001) 7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.E.J. Behrens, L.T. Hunt, M.F.S. Rushworth, The computation of social behavior, Science. 324 (2009) 1160–1164.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Striepens, K.M. Kendrick, V. Hanking, R. Landgraf, U. Wüllner, W. Maier, R. Hurlemann, Elevated cerebrospinal fluid and blood concentrations of oxytocin following its intranasal administration in humans, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3440.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Blundell, R. Harrison, B. Turney, The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

H. Gao, L. Lim, W. Wang, C. Li, L. Chen, eds., Web-Age Information Management: 13th International Conference, WAIM 2012, Harbin, China, August 18-20, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Stanciulescu, J. Vanderdonckt, Design Options for Multimodal Web Applications, in: G. Calvary, C. Pribeanu, G. Santucci, J. Vanderdonckt (Eds.), Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces V, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 41–56.

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]

E. Andrew, Boldly Going Into Space for 1,000 Days Presents a Series of Health Risks, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/boldly-going-space-1000-days-presents-series-health-risks/ (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, Aviation Safety: Changes Needed in FAA’s Service Difficulty Reporting Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Kotch, Unduly harsh and unworkably rigid: The death penalty in North Carolina, 1910–1961, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 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]

S. Binder, A Game Plan for Senate Democrats, New York Times. (2017) A23.

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