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

Fishman MC (2001) The genomic cosmos. Nature 410:1033

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu X, Zhou Q (2014) Novel hydrated graphene ribbon unexpectedly promotes aged seed germination and root differentiation. Sci Rep 4:3782

A journal article with 3 authors

Willbold M, Elliott T, Moorbath S (2011) The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth’s mantle before the terminal bombardment. Nature 477:195–198

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jansen R, Yu H, Greenbaum D, et al (2003) A Bayesian networks approach for predicting protein-protein interactions from genomic data. Science 302:449–453

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castillo E, Cobo A, Jubete F, Pruneda RE (1999) Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

McLaurin BT (2012) Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions - Volume 1: Interpreting Desert and Fluvial Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Engelson L, Lindberg PO (2006) Congestion Pricing of Road Networks with Users Having Different Time Values. In: Lawphongpanich S, Hearn DW, Smith MJ (eds) Mathematical and Computational Models for Congestion Charging. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 81–104

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

Davis J (2016) Comprehensive Review Of Statins Finds The Benefits Far Outweigh The Risks. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/comprehensive-review-of-statins-finds-the-benefits-far-outweigh-the-risks/. 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 (1996) General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

McAlpine TE (2008) College students and career: An exploration of vocational anticipatory socialization. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Wagner J (2016) Colon, After 3 Seasons With Mets, Agrees to Join Braves. New York Times D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fishman 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fishman 2001; Hu and Zhou 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hu and Zhou 2014)
Three or more authors: (Jansen et al. 2003)

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