How to format your references using the New Microbes and New Infections citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Microbes and New Infections. 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

[1]

Villeval MC. Economics. Ready, steady, compete. Science 2012;335:544–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cresswell JE, Thompson HM. Comment on “A common pesticide decreases foraging success and survival in honey bees.” Science 2012;337:1453; author reply 1453.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Foley SF, Buhre S, Jacob DE. Evolution of the Archaean crust by delamination and shallow subduction. Nature 2003;421:249–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Senju A, Southgate V, White S, Frith U. Mindblind eyes: an absence of spontaneous theory of mind in Asperger syndrome. Science 2009;325:883–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gywat O, Krenner HJ, Berezovsky J. Spins in Optically Active Quantum Dots. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Spike JP. A Casebook in Interprofessional Ethics: A Succinct Introduction to Ethics for the Health Professions. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Herrington J. Flex and AIR: Taking Applications to the Desktop. In: Herrington J, Elrom E, Mostafa J, editors. AdvancED Flex 3, Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2008, p. 181–206.

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 New Microbes and New Infections.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. There’s No Such Thing As An ‘Addictive Personality’ – Here’s Why. IFLScience 2016.

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. Recovery Act Education Programs: Survey of School Districts’ Uses of Funds (GAO-11-885SP, September 2011), an E-supplement to GAO-11-804. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gardina VJ. Analysis of LiDAR data for fluvial geomorphic change detection at a small Maryland stream. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Lemon. New York Times 2017:C6.

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	New Microbes and New Infections
Abbreviation	New Microbes New Infect.
ISSN (print)	2052-2975
Scope