How to format your references using the Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins. 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

Heller E (2000) Electrons in the looking glass. Nature 403:489, 491

A journal article with 2 authors

Blander JM, Medzhitov R (2006) Toll-dependent selection of microbial antigens for presentation by dendritic cells. Nature 440:808–812

A journal article with 3 authors

Turner WR, Oppenheimer M, Wilcove DS (2009) A force to fight global warming. Nature 462:278–279

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pitcher T, Kalikoski D, Pramod G, Short K (2009) Not honouring the code. Nature 457:658–659

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Butler KC (2016) Multinational Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Perner P, Salvetti O (2008) Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry: Third International Conference, MDA 2008 Leipzig, Germany, July 14, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Surján PR, Szabados Á (2011) Perturbative Approximations to Avoid Matrix Diagonalization. In: Zalesny R, Papadopoulos MG, Mezey PG, Leszczynski J (eds) Linear-Scaling Techniques in Computational Chemistry and Physics: Methods and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 83–95

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 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Rosetta’s Final Dive In Two Weeks Will Unlock Comet 67P’s Last Secrets. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosettas-final-dive-in-two-weeks-will-unlock-comet-67ps-last-secrets/. 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 (1977) Certain Food Aspects of the School Lunch Program in New York City. 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

Schoettler MR (2017) A Publish-Subscribe Framework for Embedded Systems: Simplifying the Development Process. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Schmitt E (2017) Vast Exercise Demonstrated Russia’s Growing Military Prowess. New York Times A11

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	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins
Abbreviation	Probiotics Antimicrob. Proteins
ISSN (print)	1867-1306
ISSN (online)	1867-1314
Scope	Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Microbiology