How to format your references using the The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (JMD). 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 R. Astronomy. Galaxy clusters reveal their secrets. Science, 2001, 293:1781–2

A journal article with 2 authors

Simpson GG, Dean C. Arabidopsis, the Rosetta stone of flowering time? Science, 2002, 296:285–9

A journal article with 3 authors

Murray B, Huntress WT Jr, Friedman LD. Mars outposts: a planetary society approach to exploration. Nature, 2001, 412:254–5

A journal article with 36 or more authors

Roper C, Pearce R, Nair S, Sharp B, Nosten F, Anderson T. Intercontinental spread of pyrimethamine-resistant malaria. Science, 2004, 305:1124

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pangarkar VG. Design of Multiphase Reactors. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014

An edited book

Camarinha-Matos LM, Xu L, Afsarmanesh H, editors. Collaborative Networks in the Internet of Services: 13th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2012, Bournemouth, UK, October 1-3, 2012. Proceedings. vol. 380. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2012

A chapter in an edited book

Da T, Li Z, Feng B. A Video Steganalysis Algorithm for H.264/AVC Based on the Markov Features. Edited by Huang D-S, Jo K-H and Hussain A. Intelligent Computing Theories and Methodologies: 11th International Conference, ICIC 2015, Fuzhou, China, August 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 47–59

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 The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

Blog post

Davis J. “Intelligent” Slime Mold Can Teach Other Colonies By Fusing With Them. IFLScience, 2016. (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

Government Accountability Office. Offshoring: U.S. Semiconductor and Software Industries Increasingly Produce in China and India. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tanner-Anderson SL. “The Road Less Traveled”: The Female’s Journey to the State Superintendency. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Pilon M. Skating’s New Scoring System Adds to Challenge for American Men. New York Times, 2014:SP11

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	The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Diagn.
ISSN (print)	1525-1578
ISSN (online)	1943-7811
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine