How to format your references using the Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports. 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

[1]

S.M. Slivan, Spin vector alignment of Koronis family asteroids, Nature 419 (2002) 49–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Lamb, P. Davis, Cenozoic climate change as a possible cause for the rise of the Andes, Nature 425 (2003) 792–797.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Reyes-Lamothe, D.J. Sherratt, M.C. Leake, Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli, Science 328 (2010) 498–501.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I.K. Jordan, F.A. Kondrashov, I.A. Adzhubei, Y.I. Wolf, E.V. Koonin, A.S. Kondrashov, S. Sunyaev, A universal trend of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution, Nature 433 (2005) 633–638.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Michaud, Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

F. Gao, K. Shi, S. Li, eds., Computational Methods for Molecular Imaging, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Dvoyris, Y. Kreiss, T. Bader, Treatment Capabilities of Field Hospitals at War and Mass-Casualty Disasters, in: N. Wolfson, A. Lerner, L. Roshal (Eds.), Orthopedics in Disasters: Orthopedic Injuries in Natural Disasters and Mass Casualty Events, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016: pp. 37–46.

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 Genetics and Metabolism Reports.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Natural Disasters Spark Civil Wars, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/natural-disasters-spark-civil-wars/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: Early Releases of Customs Trade System Operating, but Pattern of Cost and Schedule Problems Needs to Be Addressed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.A. Reilly, Information and Communication Technology Use in the College Classroom: Adjunct Faculty Perspectives, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2014.

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

[1]

M.J.O. Murphy, Friday File, New York Times (2014) C31.

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	Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports
Abbreviation	Mol. Genet. Metab. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2214-4269
Scope	Endocrinology Genetics Molecular Biology