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]

Mackas DL. Does blending of chlorophyll data bias temporal trend? Nature 2011; 472; E4-5; discussion E8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McCormick C, Ganem D. The kaposin B protein of KSHV activates the p38/MK2 pathway and stabilizes cytokine mRNAs. Science 2005; 307; 739–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Haider B, Häusser M, Carandini M. Inhibition dominates sensory responses in the awake cortex. Nature 2013; 493; 97–100.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Eastwood G, Goodman SJ, Cunningham AA, et al. Aedes taeniorhynchus vectorial capacity informs a pre-emptive assessment of West Nile virus establishment in Galápagos. Sci. Rep. 2013; 3; 1519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Posudin Y. Methods of Measuring Environmental Parameters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Sucaet Y. Digital Pathology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Neugebauer J, Magenheim J, Ohrndorf L, et al. Defining Proficiency Levels of High School Students in Computer Science by an Empirical Task Analysis Results of the MoKoM Project. In: Brodnik A, Vahrenhold J, editors. Informatics in Schools. Curricula, Competences, and Competitions: 8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 28 - October 1, 2015, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015 p.45–56, p. 45–56.

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]

Andrew E. Why Do Honey Bees Make Hexagonal Honeycomb? 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 Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Is Addressing Challenges of Its Expanded Mission and Workforce, but Additional Actions Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Topdemir CM. School counselor accountability practices: A national study 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

[1]

Burghardt LF. A Symbol of Carefree, Innocent Fun? Not in Oyster Bay. New York Times 2006; 14LI10.

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