How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular Histology citation style

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

di Lernia S (2015) Cultural heritage: Save Libyan archaeology. Nature 517:547–549

A journal article with 2 authors

Odorizzi PM, Wherry EJ (2013) Immunology. An interferon paradox. Science 340:155–156

A journal article with 3 authors

Hua W, Chung J, Gelles J (2002) Distinguishing inchworm and hand-over-hand processive kinesin movement by neck rotation measurements. Science 295:844–848

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nishimura Y, Onoe H, Morichika Y, et al (2007) Time-dependent central compensatory mechanisms of finger dexterity after spinal cord injury. Science 318:1150–1155

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hernandez EM, Kamal-Eldin A (2013) Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gannon T, Fletcher M, Ball T (eds) (2005) Mack Scogin Merrill Elam: Knowlton Hall. Princeton Archit. Press, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Castelo-Branco G, Emmanuel-Costa D (2015) Flavour Physics and CP Violation in the Standard Model and Beyond. In: Merino C (ed) Lectures on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology: Proceedings of the Third IDPASC School, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, January 21 -- February 2, 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 145–186

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 Histology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) These Two Cheap Drugs Could Cut Breast Cancer Deaths. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/these-two-cheap-drugs-could-cut-breast-cancer-deaths/. 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 (2011) Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Implementation Is Under Way, but Enhanced Technical Oversight and Performance Measures Are Needed. 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

Das A (2013) Optimizing symbol timing, frequency spacing, and SNR estimation for communication systems. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Perot Shifts on Homosexuals in Military. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (di Lernia 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Odorizzi and Wherry 2013; di Lernia 2015).

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

Two authors: (Odorizzi and Wherry 2013)
Three or more authors: (Nishimura et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Histology
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Histol.
ISSN (print)	1567-2379
ISSN (online)	1567-2387
Scope	Cell Biology Physiology General Medicine Histology