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]

Service RF. American Chemical Society meeting. Snapshots from the meeting. Science 2006;314:47.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Denicourt C, Dowdy SF. Medicine. Targeting apoptotic pathways in cancer cells. Science 2004;305:1411–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wu B, Chen J, Singer RH. Background free imaging of single mRNAs in live cells using split fluorescent proteins. Sci Rep 2014;4:3615.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ordovas-Montanes J, Dwyer DF, Nyquist SK, Buchheit KM, Vukovic M, Deb C, et al. Allergic inflammatory memory in human respiratory epithelial progenitor cells. Nature 2018;560:649–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wolf EL, Medikonda M. Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Geroulakos G, Sumpio B, editors. Vascular Surgery: Cases, Questions and Commentaries. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Debois S, Hildebrandt T, Slaats T. Concurrency and Asynchrony in Declarative Workflows. In: Motahari-Nezhad HR, Recker J, Weidlich M, editors. Business Process Management: 13th International Conference, BPM 2015, Innsbruck, Austria, August 31 -- September 3, 2015, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 72–89.

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]

Evans K. We Don’t Need To Cut Down Forests To Produce More Food, Says UN Report. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-dont-need-to-cut-down-forests-to-produce-more-food-says-un-report/ (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. General Aviation Airports: Unauthorized Land Use Highlights Need for Improved Oversight and Enforcement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lee D. Subjective strain, anger, and delinquency: Evidence from South Korea. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Hollander S. Adaptive Sports Stoke the Competitive Spirit. New York Times 2002:D8.

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