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]

J.J. Fortney, Planetary science. Looking into the giant planets, Science. 305 (2004) 1414–1415.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.D. Thomas, M. Williamson, Extinction and climate change, Nature. 482 (2012) E4-5; author reply E5-6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.A. Baum, S.D. Smith, S.S.S. Donovan, Evolution. The tree-thinking challenge, Science. 310 (2005) 979–980.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Langevin, F. Poulet, J.-P. Bibring, B. Schmitt, S. Douté, B. Gondet, Summer evolution of the north polar cap of Mars as observed by OMEGA/Mars Express, Science. 307 (2005) 1581–1584.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

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

An edited book

[1]

L.F. del Cerro, A. Herzig, J. Mengin, eds., Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 13th European Conference, JELIA 2012, Toulouse, France, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Rodrigues, M. Coles, D. Dye, Connection Managers, in: M. Coles, D. Dye (Eds.), Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012: pp. 83–105.

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, Study Claims Colony Collapse Disorder Caused By Insecticides, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-claims-colony-collapse-disorder-caused-insecticides/ (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, Electronic Government: Additional OMB Leadership Needed to Optimize Use of New Federal Employee Identification Cards, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.C. Wright, The association between rheumatoid arthritis, bone strength, and body composition within the women’s health initiative, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

B. Sisario, Metallica’s ‘Hardwired’ Hits No. 1 on Chart, New York Times. (2016) C4.

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

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