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

Ransohoff RM (2014) Physiology. Good barriers make good neighbors. Science 346:36–37

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucić V, Baumeister W (2005) Neuroscience. Monte Carlo places strong odds on ectopic release. Science 309:387–388

A journal article with 3 authors

Cavazzana-Calvo M, Thrasher A, Mavilio F (2004) The future of gene therapy. Nature 427:779–781

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ricardo A, Carrigan MA, Olcott AN, Benner SA (2004) Borate minerals stabilize ribose. Science 303:196

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korst J, Pronk V (2006) Multimedia Storage and Retrieval. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mohammad A, Inamuddin (eds) (2012) Green Solvents II: Properties and Applications of Ionic Liquids. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Khangamwa G (2011) Detecting Network Intrusions Using Hierarchical Temporal Memory. In: Popescu-Zeletin R, Rai IA, Jonas K, Villafiorita A (eds) E-Infrastuctures and E-Services for Developing Countries: Second International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, November 25-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–48

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

Fang J (2014) Test Confirms There’s a Huge Hot Bubble Of Gas Caused By A Supernova In Our Galaxy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/test-confirms-theres-huge-hot-bubble-gas-caused-supernova-our-galaxy/. 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 (1973) Common Interests of Government and Schools of Business and Administration in Improving Management in Government. 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

Ellerbrook SL (2009) Exploring the efficiency and effectiveness of teacher selection tools: The effects on the total group with a focus on the gender sub-groups. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ransohoff 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lucić and Baumeister 2005; Ransohoff 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lucić and Baumeister 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ricardo 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

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