How to format your references using the Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Abbott A (2002) CERN collider project back on track. Nature 420:721

A journal article with 2 authors

Stahler S, Palla F (2014) Astronomy. The beat of young stars. Science 345:514–515

A journal article with 3 authors

Li A, Wu B, Wang L (2014) Cooperation with both synergistic and local interactions can be worse than each alone. Sci Rep 4:5536

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chang H, Saito M, Nagai T, et al (2014) Single adatom dynamics at monatomic steps of free-standing few-layer reduced graphene. Sci Rep 4:6037

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner H (2017) Project Management Case Studies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dam KH van, Nikolic I, Lukszo Z (eds) (2013) Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Nellis A, Kesseli P, Conmy PR, et al (2016) Assisted Coverage Closure. In: Rayadurgam S, Tkachuk O (eds) NASA Formal Methods: 8th International Symposium, NFM 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 7-9, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–64

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 Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Smart Insulin Patch Could Be a ‘Game Changer.’ In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-smart-insulin-patch-could-be-game-changer/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1990) Stafford Student Loans: Millions of Dollars in Loans Awarded to Ineligible Borrowers. 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

Fonfa SL (2008) The impact of increased security on the employment options and lives of people with severe disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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 (2016) Streisand’s ‘Encore’ Tops Album Chart. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2002; Stahler and Palla 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stahler and Palla 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Abbreviation	Cell. Mol. Neurobiol.
ISSN (print)	0272-4340
ISSN (online)	1573-6830
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience