How to format your references using the International Journal of Molecular Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Molecular Medicine. 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

Elvis M: Astronomy: Cosmic triangles and black-hole masses. Nature 515: 498–499, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu L and Li B: Low thermal conductivity in ultrathin carbon nanotube (2, 1). Sci Rep 4: 4917, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sowers T, Alley RB and Jubenville J: Ice core records of atmospheric N2O covering the last 106,000 years. Science 301: 945–948, 2003.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Milner JJ, Toma C, Yu B, et al.: Runx3 programs CD8+ T cell residency in non-lymphoid tissues and tumours. Nature 552: 253–257, 2017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liebhart R, Chandramouli D, Wong C and Merkel J: LTE for Public Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

Larusson JA and White B: Learning Analytics: From Research to Practice. Springer, New York, NY, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Silva WA and Karram MM: Prolapse. In: Vaginal Surgery for Incontinence and Prolapse. Zimmern PE, Norton PA, Haab F and Chapple CCR (eds.) Springer, London, pp35–54, 2006.

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 International Journal of Molecular Medicine.

Blog post

Hamilton K: Why Do Elephants Bellow But Whales Squeak Like A Mouse? IFLScience, 2016.

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: Civil Aviation Research and Development Programs and Facilities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lansdon J: A policy analysis of California’s three strikes law of 1994., 2010.

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

Tackett M: Virginia Election May Hinge on Immigrants. Will They Vote? New York Times: A17, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	International Journal of Molecular Medicine
Abbreviation	Int. J. Mol. Med.
ISSN (print)	1107-3756
ISSN (online)	1791-244X
Scope	Genetics General Medicine