How to format your references using the Medical Molecular Morphology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medical Molecular Morphology. 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

Macilwain C (2000) AAAS members fret over links with theological foundation. Nature 403:819

A journal article with 2 authors

Janssen M, Renn J (2015) History: Einstein was no lone genius. Nature 527:298–300

A journal article with 3 authors

Binshtok AM, Bean BP, Woolf CJ (2007) Inhibition of nociceptors by TRPV1-mediated entry of impermeant sodium channel blockers. Nature 449:607–610

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mondal M, Kamlapure A, Ganguli SC, et al (2013) Enhancement of the finite-frequency superfluid response in the pseudogap regime of strongly disordered superconducting films. Sci Rep 3:1357

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Exposito E, Diop C (2014) Smart SOA Platforms in Cloud Computing Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Swerdlow NR (2010) Behavioral Neurobiology of Schizophrenia and Its Treatment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Skorupa G (2014) Method of Constructing the Cognitive State for Context-Dependent Utterances in the Form of Conditionals. In: Nguyen NT (ed) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 100–119

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 Medical Molecular Morphology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Awesome Astronomical Events That Will Occur Long After We’re Dead. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-will-we-miss/. 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 (2010) Highway Trust Fund: Nearly All States Received More Funding Than They Contributed in Highway Taxes Since 2005. 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

Kamph M (2017) Examining Commodity, Agency, and Value: Prehistoric French Replicas, Casts, and “Frauds” within the National Museum of Natural History’s Collection. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Billard M (2010) Scouting Report. New York Times E6

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	Medical Molecular Morphology
Abbreviation	Med. Mol. Morphol.
ISSN (print)	1860-1480
ISSN (online)	1860-1499
Scope	Molecular Biology General Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine