How to format your references using the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 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

Guthrie RD (2006) New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization and Pleistocene extinctions. Nature 441:207–209

A journal article with 2 authors

Bell AM, Robinson GE (2011) Genomics. Behavior and the dynamic genome. Science 332:1161–1162

A journal article with 3 authors

Wasmuth EV, Januszyk K, Lima CD (2014) Structure of an Rrp6-RNA exosome complex bound to poly(A) RNA. Nature 511:435–439

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Piggott AY, Lu J, Babinec TM, et al (2014) Inverse design and implementation of a wavelength demultiplexing grating coupler. Sci Rep 4:7210

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weber P, Simon C (2016) Benefits of Bayesian Network Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Berg B (2014) Plant Litter: Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration, 3rd ed. 2014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lee J-H (2013) A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Workers and Citizenship in Korea and Germany. In: Pohlmann M, Yang J, Lee J-H (eds) Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization: The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship in Asia and Europe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–87

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 Inherited Metabolic Disease.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Captive Chimpanzees To Be Classified As Endangered. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/captive-chimpanzees-be-classified-endangered/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2005) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Contartesi RA (2010) School climate: A correlational analysis of superintendent leadership communication and employee performance. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Schwartz J (2016) Duane Graveline, Forced Out as Astronaut, Dies at 85. New York Times A24

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Guthrie 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Guthrie 2006; Bell and Robinson 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bell and Robinson 2011)
Three or more authors: (Piggott et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
Abbreviation	J. Inherit. Metab. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0141-8955
ISSN (online)	1573-2665
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)