Citation Styles Playbook

In-Text Citation Format:

...(Author's first initial(s). Author's last name, unpublished data/manuscript/document).

Examples:

...an instance where the system was used (A.F. Holder, unpublished document).

...recent scientific studies show similar results (R.B. Layton and C.C. Weathers, unpublished data).

In-Text Citation Format:

...(Author's first initial(s). Author's last name, Affiliated institution/organization/conference, Location [if relevant], Date [DMY]).

Examples:

...when the agent operates as described previously (M.G. Gordon and F.L. Rattner, presented at the Fourth Symposium on Food Microbiology, Overton, IL, 13 June 1989).

...according to directions (A. Professor, Biology Lab Powerpoint, Piedmont Virginia Community College, 15 March 2015).

In-Text Citation Format:

...(http://url).

(Note: According to ASM Instructions to Authors - January 2015, "URLs for companies that produce any of the products mentioned in your study or for products being sold may not be included in the article. However, company URLs that permit access to scientific data related to the study or to shareware used in the study are permitted.")

Example:

...available in the GenBank database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/index.html).