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

Dance, A. (2012) Health impact: Breathless. Nature 489, S2-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Hattori, M. and Gouaux, E. (2012) Molecular mechanism of ATP binding and ion channel activation in P2X receptors. Nature 485, 207–212

A journal article with 3 authors

Arendt, D. et al. (2001) Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut. Nature 409, 81–85

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Liu, L. et al. (2008) Structural basis of toll-like receptor 3 signaling with double-stranded RNA. Science 320, 379–381

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McFedries, P. (2010) Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Francis, J.H. and Abramson, D.H., eds. (2015) Recent Advances in Retinoblastoma Treatment, (1st ed. 2015.), Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Fiori, M. et al. (2013) Effect of Emotion and Personality on Deviation from Purely Rational Decision-Making. In Decision Making and Imperfection (Guy, T. V. et al., eds), pp. 129–161, 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, D. (2016) Touchscreens For Dogs, Wearables For Chickens: Welcome To The World Of Animal Technology. 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 (1992) Tax Systems Modernization: IRS Could Have Avoided Successful Protests of Major Computer Procurement, 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

Krepstekies, C. (2010) News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Kelly, C. (2009) Antiques Dealers Still Scoring Big SalesNew York Times, B6

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