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

Buat V (2015) Astrophysics: Dust-poor galaxies at early times. Nature 522:422–423

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurdon JB, Bourillot PY (2001) Morphogen gradient interpretation. Nature 413:797–803

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen HZ, Wang W, Yi XX (2014) Hall conductance and topological invariant for open systems. Sci Rep 4:6455

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Audet J, Wong G, Wang H, et al (2014) Molecular characterization of the monoclonal antibodies composing ZMAb: a protective cocktail against Ebola virus. Sci Rep 4:6881

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter DA (2009) A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wu Y (ed) (2011) Computing and Intelligent Systems: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011. Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Grossman T (2013) The Early Development of Processing Emotions in Face and Voice. In: Belin P, Campanella S, Ethofer T (eds) Integrating Face and Voice in Person Perception. Springer, New York, NY, pp 95–116

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 (2016) This Lacewing Bacterium Kills Only Males. 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 (2008) Review of the Transportation Security Administration’s Air Cargo Screening Exemptions Report. 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

Del Cid EJ (2009) Services for immigrant families with children in the child welfare system: 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

Walsh MW (2012) New Treasury Rules Ease 401(k) Annuity Purchase. New York Times B4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buat 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gurdon and Bourillot 2001; Buat 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gurdon and Bourillot 2001)
Three or more authors: (Audet et al. 2014)

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