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

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

Kleiner K (2008) Toronto rising. Nature 453:252–253

A journal article with 2 authors

Jing Z, Wu L (2014) Intensified diapycnal mixing in the midlatitude western boundary currents. Sci Rep 4:7412

A journal article with 3 authors

Häusser M, Major G, Stuart GJ (2001) Differential shunting of EPSPs by action potentials. Science 291:138–141

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Thakur S, Biswas D, Sahadev N, et al (2013) Complex spectral evolution in a BCS superconductor, ZrB12. Sci Rep 3:3342

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kimball R, Ross M (2015) The Kimball Group Reader. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Marín-García J (2008) Aging and the Heart: A Post-Genomic View. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Teodor V, Cucu M, Oancea N (2009) The Worm Cutter Tool Profiling Based on Discreet Surfaces Representation. In: Mastorakis N, Mladenov V, Kontargyri VT (eds) Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 2. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 49–62

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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Biologists Say They Found The First Great White Shark Nursery In Long Island. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/biologists-say-they-found-the-first-great-white-shark-nursery-in-long-island/. 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 (2006) Air Traffic Control Modernization: Status of the Current Program and Planning for the Next Generation Air Transportation System. 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

Latronica AN (2016) The effect of emotion regulation on stress and the role of executive function. 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

Cowen T, Itzkoff D, Vanderbilt T, et al (2012) The One-Page Magazine. New York Times MM11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleiner 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kleiner 2008; Jing and Wu 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jing and Wu 2014)
Three or more authors: (Thakur et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0895-8696
ISSN (online)	1559-1166
Scope	General Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience