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]

Gogotsi Y. Materials science: Energy storage wrapped up. Nature 2014;509:568–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sugita Y, Suzuki Y. Audiovisual perception: Implicit estimation of sound-arrival time. Nature 2003;421:911.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Carazo-Salas RE, Antony C, Nurse P. The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast. Science 2005;309:297–300.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Frey HU, Phan TD, Fuselier SA, Mende SB. Continuous magnetic reconnection at Earth’s magnetopause. Nature 2003;426:533–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Raynaud H, Arrow KJ. Managerial Logic. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Wolff BG, Fleshman JW, Beck DE, Pemberton JH, Wexner SD, Church JM, et al., editors. The ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shapiro II. Radar Astronomy, General Relativity, and Celestial Mechanics. In: Colombo G, editor. Modern Questions of Celestial Mechanics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 65–168.

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]

Luntz S. Orangutans Can Breastfeed For Up To A Record-Breaking Eight Years. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/orangutans-can-breastfeed-for-up-to-a-recordbreaking-eight-years/ (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. Student Athletes: Information on Their Academic Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nixon HA. Defining Principals: The Seen and the Unseen. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards Five and Six. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2015.

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]

Shpigel B. Leader of Chiefs’ Special Teams Gives the Humble Punt Its Due. New York Times 2017:SP1.

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