How to format your references using the Metabolic Brain Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Metabolic Brain Disease. 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

Poulin P (2005) Chemistry. New gels for mixing immiscible liquids. Science 309:2174–2175

A journal article with 2 authors

Horne-Badovinac S, Munro E (2011) Developmental biology. Tubular transformations. Science 333:294–295

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson JS, Rittle J, Peters JC (2013) Catalytic conversion of nitrogen to ammonia by an iron model complex. Nature 501:84–87

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sánchez-Lavega A, del Río-Gaztelurrutia T, Hueso R, et al (2011) Deep winds beneath Saturn’s upper clouds from a seasonal long-lived planetary-scale storm. Nature 475:71–74

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klee L (2015) International Construction Contract Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Sun F, Zhang J, Tan Y, et al (eds) (2008) Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2008: 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, Beijing, China, September 24-28, 2008, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Simpson GA, Berlet GC (2014) Bunions in Athletes. In: Philbin TM (ed) Sports Injuries of the Foot: Evolving Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 35–48

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 Metabolic Brain Disease.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Drones Could Be Used To Fly Blood Samples To Remote Medical Centers. In: IFLScience. 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) Fiscal Year 2007 Performance Plans. 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

Beasley CA (2010) Investigations of redox-labeled silica and gold nanoparticles in solution and as films on electrodes. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Ketner L (2009) Quotation of the Day. New York Times A3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Poulin 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Poulin 2005; Horne-Badovinac and Munro 2011).

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

Two authors: (Horne-Badovinac and Munro 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sánchez-Lavega et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Metabolic Brain Disease
Abbreviation	Metab. Brain Dis.
ISSN (print)	0885-7490
ISSN (online)	1573-7365
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience