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

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

Webb S (2007) Science careers. Covering the planet with solar panels. Science 315:869

A journal article with 2 authors

Chakravarti A, Kapoor A (2012) Genetics. Mendelian puzzles. Science 335:930–931

A journal article with 3 authors

Wootton SK, Halbert CL, Miller AD (2005) Sheep retrovirus structural protein induces lung tumours. Nature 434:904–907

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li L, Lok S-M, Yu I-M, et al (2008) The flavivirus precursor membrane-envelope protein complex: structure and maturation. Science 319:1830–1834

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lad BK, Shrivastava D, Kulkarni MS (2016) Machine Tool Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Holzinger A, Pasi G (2013) Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data: Third International Workshop, HCI-KDD 2013, Held at SouthCHI 2013, Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Puik E, Ceglarek D (2016) A Different Consideration on Information and Complexity in Axiomatic Design. In: Farid AM, Suh NP (eds) Axiomatic Design in Large Systems: Complex Products, Buildings and Manufacturing Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 105–129

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 Medicine.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the U.S. Confirmed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-ebola-case-diagnosed-us-being-treated-dallas/. 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 (2007) Intercity Passenger Rail: Highlights of GAO Report on Need for National Policy and Strategies to Maximize Public Benefits from Federal Expenditures. 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

Cuellar D (2011) Impact of boring insects on the reproductive success of Hesperoyucca whipplei (Our Lord’s candle). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Williams J (2017) Working Toward a Sunny Version of ‘Jurassic Park.’ New York Times C4

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 Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Med.
ISSN (print)	0946-2716
ISSN (online)	1432-1440
Scope	Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical) Drug Discovery