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

Schneier B (2012) Securing medical research: a cybersecurity point of view. Science 336:1527–1529

A journal article with 2 authors

Kent DV, Tauxe L (2005) Corrected Late Triassic latitudes for continents adjacent to the North Atlantic. Science 307:240–244

A journal article with 3 authors

Alves JF, Lada CJ, Lada EA (2001) Internal structure of a cold dark molecular cloud inferred from the extinction of background starlight. Nature 409:159–161

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yu H, Kelly OD, Cros V, et al (2014) Magnetic thin-film insulator with ultra-low spin wave damping for coherent nanomagnonics. Sci Rep 4:6848

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shelton T (2013) Business Models for the Social Mobile Cloud. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Abdul Rahman A, Boguslawski P, Gold C, Said MN (2013) Developments in Multidimensional Spatial Data Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lampert A, Eberhardt M, Waxman SG (2014) Altered Sodium Channel Gating as Molecular Basis for Pain: Contribution of Activation, Inactivation, and Resurgent Currents. In: Ruben PC (ed) Voltage Gated Sodium Channels. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 91–110

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

Andrew E (2015) How Plants Respond To Damage Is Dependent On The Type of Insect Harming It. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-plants-respond-damage-dependent-type-insect-inflicting-it/. 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 (1993) Patent and Trademark Office: Key Processes for Managing Automated Patent System Development Are Weak. 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

Labelle DA (2012) Perceived barriers to recruitment and retention in rural healthcare sectors: A physical therapist narrative inquiry. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Crow K (2002) Tough Club, a Dashing Man, And His Invisible Footprints. New York Times 145

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