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

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

[1]

Chapman CR. Astronomy. Calibrating asteroid impact. Science 2013; 342; 1051–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Funk JL, Vitousek PM. Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems. Nature 2007; 446; 1079–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Morris M, Uchida K, Do T. A magnetic torsional wave near the Galactic Centre traced by a “double helix” nebula. Nature 2006; 440; 308–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xue T, Do MTH, Riccio A, et al. Melanopsin signalling in mammalian iris and retina. Nature 2011; 479; 67–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Horrocks G. Greek. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ruas A, Gold C, editors. Headway in Spatial Data Handling: 13th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Valdez-Hernández M, González-Salvatierra C, Reyes-García C, et al. Physiological Ecology of Vascular Plants. In: Islebe GA, Calmé S, León-Cortés JL, Schmook B, editors. Biodiversity and Conservation of the Yucatán Peninsula, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015 p.97–129, p. 97–129.

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 Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. New Super-Hubble Telescope Could Find out if we are Alone in the Universe. IFLScience 2015.

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. School Bullying: Extent of Legal Protections for Vulnerable Groups Needs to Be More Fully Assessed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Loretz N. Human trafficking: Identification, education, and awareness: A grant proposal 2009.

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]

Stewart JB. Monkey Throwing Darts Loses a Faithful Disciple. New York Times 2017; B1.

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	Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Cell. Mol. Med.
ISSN (online)	1582-4934
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Medicine