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

Kitano H (2002) Computational systems biology. Nature 420:206–210

A journal article with 2 authors

Lubenov EV, Siapas AG (2009) Hippocampal theta oscillations are travelling waves. Nature 459:534–539

A journal article with 3 authors

Duncan K, Sadanand A, Davachi L (2012) Memory’s penumbra: episodic memory decisions induce lingering mnemonic biases. Science 337:485–487

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Michailov GV, Sereda MW, Brinkmann BG, et al (2004) Axonal neuregulin-1 regulates myelin sheath thickness. Science 304:700–703

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin E, Nel D, Ólafsson S (2014) Problems and Solutions in Mathematical Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pohlmann N, Reimer H, Schneider W (eds) (2009) ISSE 2008 Securing Electronic Business Processes: Highlights of the Information Security Solutions Europe 2008 Conference. Vieweg+Teubner, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Miki T, Inoue T, Goto Y, et al (2010) Human-Like Local Navigation System Inspired by a Hippocampal Memory Mechanism. In: Hanazawa A, Miki T, Horio K (eds) Brain-Inspired Information Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 29–32

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) Vultures In Crisis: Poachers And Poison Threaten Nature’s Garbage Disposers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vultures-crisis-poachers-and-poison-threaten-nature-s-garbage-disposers/. 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 (1993) High-Speed Ground Transportation: Issues Affecting Development in the United States. 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

Ramirez C (2017) A Policy Analysis: Assembly Bill 1421 or Laura’s Law. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Marx L (2014) Making Headlines With Their Vows. New York Times ST13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kitano 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kitano 2002; Lubenov and Siapas 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lubenov and Siapas 2009)
Three or more authors: (Michailov et al. 2004)

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