How to format your references using the Molecular Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Microbiology. 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

Bohannon, J. (2007) Science careers. From greener production to carbon trading: sustainable energy careers. Science 315: 868–869.

A journal article with 2 authors

He, X.-L., and Garcia, K.C. (2004) Structure of nerve growth factor complexed with the shared neurotrophin receptor p75. Science 304: 870–875.

A journal article with 3 authors

Navarrete, A., Schaik, C.P. van, and Isler, K. (2011) Energetics and the evolution of human brain size. Nature 480: 91–93.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, Q., Xin, W., He, P., Turner, D., Yin, J., Gan, Y., et al. (2014) Interleukin-17 inhibits adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Sci Rep 4: 7554.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou, C. (2010) Design and Analysis of Composite Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lin, C.Y.-Y. (2013) National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea, and South Africa. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Franke, T., Hoppe, R.H.W., Linsenmann, C., and Wixforth, A. (2012) Projection Based Model Reduction for Optimal Design of the Time-dependent Stokes System. In Constrained Optimization and Optimal Control for Partial Differential Equations. Leugering, G., Engell, S., Griewank, A., Hinze, M., Rannacher, R., Schulz, V., et al. (eds). Springer, Basel. pp. 75–98.

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 Molecular Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) Explainer: Why Rosetta Comet Mission is Such a Big Deal. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/explainer-why-rosetta-comet-mission-such-big-deal/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1971) Influence Of Public Affairs Organizations On Information And Advertising Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang, Y. (2017) A Grant Proposal for Mindfulness-Based Self-Care Training for Child Welfare Workers. .

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

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar, F., Sophia Chang on, Koblin, J., Nate Schweber in, et al. (2006) That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times 14CN5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (He and Garcia, 2004; Bohannon, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (He and Garcia, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Microbiology
Abbreviation	Mol. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0950-382X
ISSN (online)	1365-2958
Scope	Molecular Biology Microbiology