How to format your references using the Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 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

Fiorillo CD (2013) Two dimensions of value: dopamine neurons represent reward but not aversiveness. Science 341:546–549

A journal article with 2 authors

Hajkova P, Surani MA (2004) Development. Programming the X chromosome. Science 303:633–634

A journal article with 3 authors

Merico A, Tyrrell T, Wilson PA (2008) Eocene/Oligocene ocean de-acidification linked to Antarctic glaciation by sea-level fall. Nature 452:979–982

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fuller BG, Lampson MA, Foley EA, et al (2008) Midzone activation of aurora B in anaphase produces an intracellular phosphorylation gradient. Nature 453:1132–1136

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hein H, Kunze W (2005) Umweltanalytik mit Spektrometrie und Chromatographie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Gussak I, Antzelevitch C, Wilde AAM, et al (eds) (2008) Electrical Diseases of the Heart: Genetics, Mechanisms, Treatment, Prevention. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Emady H, Hapgood K, Smith R (2016) Granulation and Tabletting. In: Merkus HG, Meesters GMH (eds) Production, Handling and Characterization of Particulate Materials. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 107–136

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 Muscle Research and Cell Motility.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) A Survival Guide For The Coming AI Revolution. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/a-survival-guide-for-the-coming-ai-revolution/. 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 (2004) Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Enforcement Activities. 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

Zepeda S (2012) Housing First assertive community treatment program for adults with schizophrenia and co-occurring substance abuse: A grant proposal. 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

Vecsey G (2010) To Soccer Fan, Train Whistle Hits Perfect Pitch. New York Times SP8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fiorillo 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hajkova and Surani 2004; Fiorillo 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hajkova and Surani 2004)
Three or more authors: (Fuller et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
Abbreviation	J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil.
ISSN (print)	0142-4319
ISSN (online)	1573-2657
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Physiology