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]

Enserink, M. (2000) DUTCH SCIENCE: On a Slippery Slope to Mediocrity? Science 289(5487), 2033.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bernstein, A., Rossant, J. (2013) Anthony James Pawson (1952-2013). Nature 501(7466), 168.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fortes, A.D., Suard, E., Knight, K.S. (2011) Negative linear compressibility and massive anisotropic thermal expansion in methanol monohydrate. Science 331(6018), 742–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Englund, D., Faraon, A., Fushman, I., Stoltz, N., Petroff, P., Vucković, J. (2007) Controlling cavity reflectivity with a single quantum dot. Nature 450(7171), 857–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fant, K.M. (2005) Logically Determined Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Colliot-Thélène, J.-L. (2010) Arithmetic Geometry: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, September 10-15, 2007. vol. 2009, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Crowder, J.A., Friess, S. (2013) A New Organization is Needed: Beyond Integrated Product Teams. In: Friess, S., (Ed.), Systems Engineering Agile Design Methodologies, Springer, New York, NY, pp. 23–41.

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, E. (2015) Rise in Oklahoma Earthquakes Linked to Oil and Gas Activity. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rise-oklahoma-earthquakes-linked-oil-and-gas-activity/. [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. (2000) Information Technology Management: Small Business Administration Needs Policies and Procedures to Control Key IT Processes. 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]

Farrell, D.P. (2017) Teachers’ Perceptions of How the Use of Peer Evaluation Could Improve Their Teaching Practice. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2017.

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]

Greenhouse, L. (2007) Case of Texas Murderer Engrosses Supreme Court. New York Times, A24.

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 [3,5,7,8].

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