How to format your references using the Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders (MET). 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

Jiggins CD. Evolutionary biology: Radiating genomes. Nature 2014;513(7518):318–319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bintanja R, van de Wal RSW. North American ice-sheet dynamics and the onset of 100,000-year glacial cycles. Nature 2008;454(7206):869–872.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alexander RB, Smith RA, Schwarz GE. Effect of stream channel size on the delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of Mexico. Nature 2000;403(6771):758–761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cohen SB, Graham ME, Lovrecz GO, et al. Protein composition of catalytically active human telomerase from immortal cells. Science 2007;315(5820):1850–1853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malpass DB, Band EI. Introduction to Industrial Polypropylene. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2012.

An edited book

Böckh P von. Heat Transfer: Basics and Practice. (Wetzel T. ed). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Lang D, Tichem M. Design and Experimental Evaluation of an Electrostatic Micro-Gripping System. In: Precision Assembly Technologies for Mini and Micro Products: Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.5 Third International Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS ’2006), 19–21 February 2006, Bad Hofgastein, Austria. (Ratchev S. ed). IFIP International Federation for Information Processing Springer US: Boston, MA; 2006; pp. 33–42.

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 Syndrome and Related Disorders.

Blog post

Hale T. Salt Used To De-Ice Roads Can Make Frogs Change Sex. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/salt-used-to-deice-roads-can-make-frogs-change-sex/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Telecommunications: Survey of State Regulatory Commissions (GAO-08-662SP, June 2008), an E-Supplement to GAO-08-633. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Forget MA. Tumor Angiogenesis Is All Tied up in Tie2-Expressing Macrophages. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University: Columbus, OH; 2012.

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

Greenhouse L. Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg A New Voice. New York Times 2007;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders
ISSN (print)	1540-4196
ISSN (online)	1557-8518
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