How to format your references using the Microbiology Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microbiology Australia. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Armbrust, E.V. (2009) The life of diatoms in the world’s oceans. Nature 459, 185–192

A journal article with 2 authors

Shidara, M. and Richmond, B.J. (2002) Anterior cingulate: single neuronal signals related to degree of reward expectancy. Science 296, 1709–1711

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilbert, I.R. et al. (2001) Proximity signal and shade avoidance differences between early and late successional trees. Nature 411, 792–795

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Wudick, M.M. et al. (2018) CORNICHON sorting and regulation of GLR channels underlie pollen tube Ca2+ homeostasis. Science 360, 533–536

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caltagirone, J.-P. (2015) Discrete Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vazquez Alvarez, A.J. (2015) An Introduction to Optimal Satellite Range Scheduling, 106, Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Nordström, L. and Babazadeh, D. (2015) Cyber Physical Approach to HVDC Grid Control. In Cyber Physical Systems Approach to Smart Electric Power Grid (Khaitan, S. K. et al., eds), pp. 75–101, Springer

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 Microbiology Australia.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013) New human body part discovered. IFLScience. [Online]. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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

Government Accountability Office (1974) The Process for Identifying Needs and Establishing Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, J. (2017) An Inquiry into Theory Use in HCI Research. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Strauss, B. (2016) Knicks’ Rose May Be in Court, Not on It, When Team Begins PreseasonNew York Times, B15

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	Microbiology Australia
Abbreviation	Microbiol. Aust.
ISSN (print)	1324-4272
Scope