How to format your references using the World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 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

Goto H (2014) Step-by-step magic state encoding for efficient fault-tolerant quantum computation. Sci Rep 4:7501

A journal article with 2 authors

Levison HF, Morbidelli A (2003) The formation of the Kuiper belt by the outward transport of bodies during Neptune’s migration. Nature 426:419–421

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumar G, Tang HX, Schroers J (2009) Nanomoulding with amorphous metals. Nature 457:868–872

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Coleman JR, Papamichail D, Skiena S, et al (2008) Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias. Science 320:1784–1787

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnston D (2011) A Brief History of Justice. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Geddes CD (2007) Who’s Who in Fluorescence 2007. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Zanibbi R, Blostein D, Cordy JR (2008) Decision-Based Specification and Comparison of Table Recognition Algorithms. In: Marinai S, Fujisawa H (eds) Machine Learning in Document Analysis and Recognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–103

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 World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Excitation and Inhibition Co-Exist in Disappointment. 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 (2011) Department of Labor: Further Management Improvements Needed to Address Information Technology and Financial Controls. 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

Mullin Piette AJ (2010) Dialogic encounters among health care providers in pediatric critical care: A qualitative, collective case study. 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

Gustines GG (2016) Intimate Portraits of a Golden Era. New York Times B9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Goto 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Levison and Morbidelli 2003; Goto 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Levison and Morbidelli 2003)
Three or more authors: (Coleman et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	0959-3993
ISSN (online)	1573-0972
Scope	Biotechnology Physiology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology General Medicine Food Science Plant Science Biochemistry Microbiology