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

Foley JA (2005) AtmospheRIC science. Tipping points in the tundra. Science 310:627–628

A journal article with 2 authors

Trembleau L, Rebek J Jr (2003) Helical conformation of alkanes in a hydrophobic cavitand. Science 301:1219–1220

A journal article with 3 authors

Komatsu K, Murata M, Murata Y (2005) Encapsulation of molecular hydrogen in fullerene C60 by organic synthesis. Science 307:238–240

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kerner M, Hohenberg H, Ertl S, et al (2003) Self-organization of dissolved organic matter to micelle-like microparticles in river water. Nature 422:150–154

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Teodorescu P, Stănescu N-D, Pandrea N (2013) Numerical Analysis with Applications in Mechanics and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kovalev M (2014) A Pipelined Multi-core MIPS Machine: Hardware Implementation and Correctness Proof. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lennox JA, Turner GM (2009) Modelling Manufactured Capital Stocks and Material Flows in the Australian Stocks and Flows Framework. In: Suh S (ed) Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 77–97

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

Fang J (2015) How Do Mosquitoes Walk On Water? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/special-leg-adaptations-help-mosquitoes-walk-water/. 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 (1997) Business Process Reengineering Assessment Guide--Version 3. 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

Corral E (2012) Latino undocumented students in Los Angeles: A grant proposal project. 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

Lyman R, Walsh MW (2013) Struggling, San Jose Tests a Way to Cut Benefits. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Foley 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Trembleau and Rebek 2003; Foley 2005).

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

Two authors: (Trembleau and Rebek 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kerner et al. 2003)

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