How to format your references using the Research in Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Microbiology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Porter SM. Seawater chemistry and early carbonate biomineralization. Science 2007;316:1302.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Anderson DM, Archer D. Glacial--interglacial stability of ocean pH inferred from foraminifer dissolution rates. Nature 2002;416:70–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gembris D, Taylor JG, Suter D. Trends and random fluctuations in athletics. Nature 2002;417:506.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Araki J, Nishizawa Y, Nakamura T, Sato T, Naito M, Hatayama N, et al. Anorectal autotransplantation in a canine model: the first successful report in the short term with the non-laparotomy approach. Sci Rep 2014;4:6312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Peters M, Glasser D, Hildebrandt D, Kauchali S. Membrane Process Design Using Residue Curve Maps. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Andrade C, Mancini G, editors. Modelling of Corroding Concrete Structures: Proceedings of the Joint fib-RILEM Workshop held in Madrid, Spain, 22–23 November 2010. vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cullmann J, Schmitz GH. Design of Artificial Neural Networks for Flood Forecasting. In: Schumann AH, editor. Flood Risk Assessment and Management: How to Specify Hydrological Loads, Their Consequences and Uncertainties, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 77–96.

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 Research in Microbiology.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Baby Mammoths So Well Preserved We Can Determine Cause Of Death. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-mammoths-so-well-preserved-we-can-determine-cause-death/ (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. Supercomputing in Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pikiewicz KA. I never knew I had expectations until I realized they weren’t going to come true: A grounded theory study of mothering a chronically ill child. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2012.

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]

Andrews M. Venus Williams Faces Wrongful-Death Suit. New York Times 2017:D6.

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	Research in Microbiology
Abbreviation	Res. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0923-2508
Scope	Molecular Biology Microbiology General Medicine