How to format your references using the Current Molecular Biology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Molecular Biology Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Murray TH. Genetics. Stirring the simmering “designer baby” pot. Science. 2014;343:1208–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Meehl GA, Tebaldi C. More intense, more frequent, and longer lasting heat waves in the 21st century. Science. 2004;305:994–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lin S-C, Lo Y-C, Wu H. Helical assembly in the MyD88-IRAK4-IRAK2 complex in TLR/IL-1R signalling. Nature. 2010;465:885–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Thoma R, Schulz-Gasch T, D’Arcy B, Benz J, Aebi J, Dehmlow H, et al. Insight into steroid scaffold formation from the structure of human oxidosqualene cyclase. Nature. 2004;432:118–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Buckel W, Kleiner R. Supraleitung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

1. Prusinski B. Expert Oracle GoldenGate. Phillips S, Chung R, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Crabtree A, Rouncefield M, Tolmie P. Finding the Animal in the Foliage. In: Rouncefield M, Tolmie P, editors. Doing Design Ethnography. London: Springer; 2012. p. 43–66.

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 Current Molecular Biology Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. How Beefsteak Tomatoes Became So Supersized [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-beefsteak-tomatoes-became-so-supersized/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Governance Mechanisms for Implementing Management Controls Need to Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jun. Report No.: GAO-12-685.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kim H. Linkages Between Career Development and Career Technical Education Outcomes Among High Schools in New Jersey [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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

1. Neuman W. Mayor’s Ouster Is Approved in Colombia. New York Times. 2014 Mar 21;A9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Current Molecular Biology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Mol. Biol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-6428
Scope