How to format your references using the Metabolomics citation style

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

Check, E. (2003). Cancer fears cast doubts on future of gene therapy. Nature, 421(6924), 678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jakse, N., & Pasturel, A. (2013). Liquid Aluminum: atomic diffusion and viscosity from ab initio molecular dynamics. Scientific reports, 3, 3135.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, D., Wang, C., & Guyot-Sionnest, P. (2003). n-Type conducting CdSe nanocrystal solids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5623), 1277–1280.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rehling, P., Model, K., Brandner, K., Kovermann, P., Sickmann, A., Meyer, H. E., et al. (2003). Protein insertion into the mitochondrial inner membrane by a twin-pore translocase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5613), 1747–1751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kracke, E.-A., & Lodde, K. (2011). Leitfaden Straßenbrücken. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Vogel, D., Guo, X., Linger, H., Barry, C., Lang, M., & Schneider, C. (Eds.). (2016). Transforming Healthcare Through Information Systems: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information Systems Development (1st ed. 2016., Vol. 17). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Nias Ahmad, M. A., Smith, M., Ismail, Z., Djajadikerta, H., & Roni, M. S. M. M. (2016). Computerised Accounting Information Systems and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Transparency. In M. A. Abdullah, W. K. Yahya, N. Ramli, S. R. Mohamed, & B. E. Ahmad (Eds.), Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014): Business and Social Sciences (pp. 49–59). Singapore: Springer.

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 Metabolomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 23). Hubble’s Deep Field Images Of The Early Universe Are Postcards From Billions Of Years Ago. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (2012). Higher Education: Improved Tax Information Could Help Pay for College (No. GAO-12-863T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ennaco, W. A. (2014). Mastering morphosyntax: A pre-experimental study on the effectiveness of a parent-training program for preschoolaged children with specific language impairment (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon, M., & Lehren, A. W. (2013, February 16). A Scandal Leaves Its Mark. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2003; Jakse and Pasturel 2013).

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

Two authors: (Jakse and Pasturel 2013)
Three or more authors: (Rehling et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Metabolomics
Abbreviation	Metabolomics
ISSN (print)	1573-3882
ISSN (online)	1573-3890
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism