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]

Krause RM. Obituary: Maclyn McCarty (1911-2005). Nature 2005; 433; 372.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pérez-Gussinyé M, Watts AB. The long-term strength of Europe and its implications for plate-forming processes. Nature 2005; 436; 381–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Falnes PØ, Johansen RF, Seeberg E. AlkB-mediated oxidative demethylation reverses DNA damage in Escherichia coli. Nature 2002; 419; 178–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

La Porta A, Voth GA, Crawford AM, et al. Fluid particle accelerations in fully developed turbulence. Nature 2001; 409; 1017–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Escarpa A, González MC, López MÁ. Agricultural and Food Electroanalysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Belfort M, Wood DW, Stoddard BL, et al., editors. Homing Endonucleases and Inteins. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rondon E, Salazar S, Escareno J, et al. Vision-based Position Control of a Two-rotor VTOL miniUAV. In: Valavanis KP, Beard R, Oh P, Ollero A, Piegl LA, Shim H, editors. Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. June 8–10, 2009, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010 p.49–64, p. 49–64.

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]

Fang J. Scientists Develop Shatterproof iPhone Screens. IFLScience 2014.

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. Aviation and the Environment: NextGen and Research and Development Are Keys to Reducing Emissions and Their Impact on Health and Climate. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ishutov S. Tectonic characterization of the THUMS-Huntington Beach fault, offshore southern California 2013.

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]

Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times 2015; C21.

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