How to format your references using the Systematic and Applied Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Systematic and Applied Microbiology (SYAPM). 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]

Turner, D.L. (2014) Space science: Near-Earth space shows its stripes. Nature 507(7492), 308–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Peters, D.H., Bloom, G. (2012) Developing world: Bring order to unregulated health markets. Nature 487(7406), 163–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jackson, D.E., Holcombe, M., Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2004) Trail geometry gives polarity to ant foraging networks. Nature 432(7019), 907–9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Qian, B., Raman, S., Das, R., Bradley, P., McCoy, A.J., Read, R.J., Baker, D. (2007) High-resolution structure prediction and the crystallographic phase problem. Nature 450(7167), 259–64.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kenny, T. (2014) The Nuts and Bolts of Implantable Device Therapy Pacemakers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Bimbó, K. (2016) J. Michael Dunn on Information Based Logics. vol. 8, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fleischer, T., Jahnel, J., Seitz, S.B. (2014) Technology Assessment Beyond Toxicology – The Case of Nanomaterials. In: Arnaldi, S., Ferrari, A., Magaudda, P., Marin, F., (Eds.), Responsibility in Nanotechnology Development, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 79–96.

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 Systematic and Applied Microbiology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, D. (2016) From Medical Treatment To Diet And Lifestyle Choice: How To Spot Unreliable Health Research. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/from-medical-treatment-to-diet-and-lifestyle-choice-how-to-spot-unreliable-health-research/. [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. (2009) Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Options Exist to Enhance Transportation Planning Capacity and Federal Oversight. 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

[1]

Koonin, L.M. (2013) Acceptability of pharmacies serving as primary dispensers of antiviral drugs during an influenza pandemic: Perspectives of pharmacy executives. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2013.

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]

Stewart, J.B. (2017) Musk Has Trump’s Ear, and Market Takes Note. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3,4].
This sentence cites four references [4,5,7,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Systematic and Applied Microbiology
Abbreviation	Syst. Appl. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0723-2020
ISSN (online)	1618-0984
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology