How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 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

[1]

S.C. Doney, The growing human footprint on coastal and open-ocean biogeochemistry, Science 328 (2010) 1512–1516.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Boettiger, A. Hastings, Tipping points: From patterns to predictions, Nature 493 (2013) 157–158.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Whitmore, N.S. Foulkes, P. Sassone-Corsi, Light acts directly on organs and cells in culture to set the vertebrate circadian clock, Nature 404 (2000) 87–91.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Setoguchi, M. Tachibana, Y. Naoe, S. Muroi, K. Akiyama, C. Tezuka, T. Okuda, I. Taniuchi, Repression of the transcription factor Th-POK by Runx complexes in cytotoxic T cell development, Science 319 (2008) 822–825.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Yu, D. Tao, Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. Bader, CASE AND LINKING IN LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION: Evidence from German, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Miatton, Neuropsychological Aspects in Children and Adolescents with ConHD, in: E. Callus, E. Quadri (Eds.), Clinical Psychology and Congenital Heart Disease: Lifelong Psychological Aspects and Interventions, Springer, Milano, 2015: pp. 69–82.

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 Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How Computers Broke Science – And What We Can Do To Fix It, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-computers-broke-science-and-what-we-can-do-fix-it/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, How Funds Granted to the Eisenhower College and the Rayburn Library Were Spent, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.K. Muniyappa, Performance analysis of IPv4 versus IPv6 in a simple campus network, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

[1]

J. Koblin, Patriots’ Super Bowl Victory Features a Big Comeback, Just Not for N.F.L. Ratings, New York Times (2017) B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2828
Scope	Molecular Biology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine