How to format your references using the Molecular Aspects of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Aspects of Medicine. 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

Braun, D.C., 2012. Comment on “Detection of emerging sunspot regions in the solar interior.” Science 336, 296; author reply 296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Glimcher, P.W., Rustichini, A., 2004. Neuroeconomics: the consilience of brain and decision. Science 306, 447–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rawson, F.J., Downard, A.J., Baronian, K.H., 2014. Electrochemical detection of intracellular and cell membrane redox systems in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sci. Rep. 4, 5216.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smith, O., Clapham, A.J., Rose, P., Liu, Y., Wang, J., Allaby, R.G., 2014. Genomic methylation patterns in archaeological barley show de-methylation as a time-dependent diagenetic process. Sci. Rep. 4, 5559.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kindmann, R., Kraus, M., 2012. Steel Structures. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Nagnibeda, E., 2009. Non-Equilibrium Reacting Gas Flows: Kinetic Theory of Transport and Relaxation Processes, Heat and Mass Transfer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ivanecký, J., Mehlhase, S., Mieskes, M., 2011. An Intelligent House Control Using Speech Recognition with Integrated Localization, in: Wichert, R., Eberhardt, B. (Eds.), Ambient Assisted Living: 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January 25–26, 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–62.

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 Molecular Aspects of Medicine.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. This Is The First Biofluorescent Turtle Ever Found [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-biofluorescent-turtle-ever-found/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. Education Programs: Major Issues Affecting Postsecondary Education, School-to-Work, and Youth Employment Programs (No. HEHS-97-212R). 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

Kranz, T.E., 2017. Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2015. Puerto Rico’s Debt Rescue Plan Is Being Called Into Question. New York Times B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Braun, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Braun, 2012; Glimcher and Rustichini, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Glimcher and Rustichini, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Aspects of Medicine
Abbreviation	Mol. Aspects Med.
ISSN (print)	0098-2997
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine General Medicine