How to format your references using the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 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

Hughes JD (2013) Energy: A reality check on the shale revolution. Nature 494:307–308

A journal article with 2 authors

Fairchild AL, Bayer R (2015) Public health. Smoke and fire over e-cigarettes. Science 347:375–376

A journal article with 3 authors

Van der Burg E, Cass J, Alais D (2014) Window of audio-visual simultaneity is unaffected by spatio-temporal visual clutter. Sci Rep 4:5098

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Woodward J, Orr M, Cordray K, Greenbaum E (2000) Enzymatic production of biohydrogen. Nature 405:1014–1015

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway J (2009) Becoming a Category of One. Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ohtsu M (ed) (2005) Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics III: Industrial Applications and Dynamics of the Nano-Optical System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Georgakis CT, Jørgensen NG (2013) Change in Mass and Damping on Vertically Vibrating Footbridges Due to Pedestrians. In: Cunha A (ed) Topics in Dynamics of Bridges, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013. Springer, New York, NY, pp 37–45

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 Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) “Cuddle Hormone” May Help Chimpanzees Wage War. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cuddle-hormone-may-help-chimpanzees-wage-war/. 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 (1991) Highway Safety: Interim Report on Safety Belt and Motorcycle Helmet Effectiveness. 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

Yu W (2012) Impacts of storms and sea-level rise on coastal evolution between two capes: Onslow Bay, North Carolina. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) The Nuptials Are Set. The Groom? TBD. New York Times C8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hughes 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hughes 2013; Fairchild and Bayer 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fairchild and Bayer 2015)
Three or more authors: (Woodward et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
Abbreviation	J. Inherit. Metab. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0141-8955
ISSN (online)	1573-2665
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)