How to format your references using the Molecular Vision citation style

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

Carroll SB. The big picture. Nature. 2001;409(6821):669.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin MT, Beal MF. Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases. Nature. 2006;443(7113):787-795.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mahadevan A, Thomas LN, Tandon A. Comment on “Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms.” Science. 2008;320(5875):448; author reply 448.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ferguson NM, Cummings DAT, Cauchemez S, et al. Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia. Nature. 2005;437(7056):209-214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carroll N. Minerva’s Night Out. A John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Rozhansky V. Review of Plasma Physics. Vol 24. (Bakunin OG, ed.). Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Gheriani R, Mechiakh R. Scanning Electron Microscopy Analysis of Titanium Coatings on Steel Substrates. In: Polychroniadis EK, Oral AY, Ozer M, eds. International Multidisciplinary Microscopy Congress: Proceedings of InterM, Antalya, Turkey, October 10–13, 2013. Springer Proceedings in Physics. Springer International Publishing; 2014:33-36.

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 Vision.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Astronomers Spot Whirlwinds Shooting Out From A Young Star. IFLScience. December 16, 2016.

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Can Be More Proactive in Promoting Aviation Safety. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Green JT. The Relationship between Technology Support and Extent of Technology Integration into College-Level Foreign Language Curricula. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2010.

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

Sisario B. Bob Dylan Delivers His Nobel Lecture. New York Times. June 5, 2017:C3.

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	Molecular Vision
ISSN (online)	1090-0535
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