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

Fuyuno I (2006) Stuck in the middle. Nature 442:237

A journal article with 2 authors

Elbert T, Heim S (2001) A light and a dark side. Nature 411:139

A journal article with 3 authors

Song T-RA, Helmberger DV, Grand SP (2004) Low-velocity zone atop the 410-km seismic discontinuity in the northwestern United States. Nature 427:530–533

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Drescher M, Hentschel M, Kienberger R, et al (2001) X-ray pulses approaching the attosecond frontier. Science 291:1923–1927

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Green PE Jr (2005) Fiber to the Home. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bhushan M (2011) Microelectronic Test Structures for CMOS Technology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Van Lear W (2013) Globalization, the Labor Market, and Retirement. In: Arxer SL, Murphy JW (eds) The Symbolism of Globalization, Development, and Aging. Springer, New York, NY, pp 47–57

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) Scientists Seek Approval To Genetically Modify Human Embryos. In: IFLScience. 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 (1976) Services to Indian Head Start Grantees Under a Special Program. 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

Terrell ND (2012) Exact solutions to combinatorial optimizations and the traveling baseball fan problem. 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

Markoff J (2017) Shhh! That Helpful Robot May Pose a Security Risk. New York Times B6

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