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]

Konner M. Seeking universals. Nature 2002; 415; 121.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Booth B, Bellouin N. Climate change: Black carbon and atmospheric feedbacks. Nature 2015; 519; 167–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Berkhout B, Das AT, Beerens N. HIV-1 RNA editing, hypermutation, and error-prone reverse transcription. Science 2001; 292; 7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Watkins DN, Berman DM, Burkholder SG, et al. Hedgehog signalling within airway epithelial progenitors and in small-cell lung cancer. Nature 2003; 422; 313–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Trout J, Rivkin S. Differentiate or Die. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Pascucci A. Finanza Matematica: Teoria e problemi per modelli multiperiodali. Milano: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lattimer B, Campbell T. Fire Modelling of Composites. In: Gibson AG, editor. Fire Properties of Polymer Composite Materials, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006 p.103–32, p. 103–32.

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]

Andrews R. New Zealand’s 7.8M Earthquake Really Messed Up The Environment. 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Energy Research and Development Administration’s Contingency Plan for Constructing Additional Enrichment Capacity at Portsmouth, Ohio. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Goggin S. The European Capital of Culture: The politics of a becoming Europe 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]

Vecsey G. As Colts Rested, Jets Awoke. New York Times 2010; D1.

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