How to format your references using the Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Hertz N (2009) Recession Watch: Cooperation must rule. Nature 457:962–963

A journal article with 2 authors

Rubin JD, Taatjes DJ (2015) Molecular biology: Mediating transcription and RNA export. Nature 526:199–200

A journal article with 3 authors

Villeneuve J, Chaussidon M, Libourel G (2009) Homogeneous distribution of 26Al in the solar system from the Mg isotopic composition of chondrules. Science 325:985–988

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fuchs F, Soltamov VA, Väth S, et al (2013) Silicon carbide light-emitting diode as a prospective room temperature source for single photons. Sci Rep 3:1637

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ray Chaudhuri N, Chaudhuri B, Majumder R, Yazdani A (2014) Multi-Terminal Direct-Current Grids. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Liamputtong P (ed) (2013) Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Chehab EW, Braam J (2012) Jasmonates in Plant Defense Responses. In: Witzany G, Baluška F (eds) Biocommunication of Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–88

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 Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Big Questions About Risk Assessment Of Nanomaterials. 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 (1995) Central Artery/Tunnel Project. 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

Edwards DH (2017) Why Do They Get High?: An Examination of Social Bond Theory and Substance Use in College. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Feeney K (2006) QUICK BITE/Edison; Sandwich for Five? New York Times 14NJ24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hertz 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hertz 2009; Rubin and Taatjes 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rubin and Taatjes 2015)
Three or more authors: (Fuchs et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Abbreviation	Cell. Mol. Neurobiol.
ISSN (print)	0272-4340
ISSN (online)	1573-6830
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience