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

Hurtgen MT (2012) Geochemistry. The marine sulfur cycle, revisited. Science 337:305–306

A journal article with 2 authors

Schreiber H, Rowley DA (2008) Cancer. Quo vadis, specificity? Science 319:164–165

A journal article with 3 authors

Ji M, Odelius M, Gaffney KJ (2010) Large angular jump mechanism observed for hydrogen bond exchange in aqueous perchlorate solution. Science 328:1003–1005

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Alvarez-Dolado M, Pardal R, Garcia-Verdugo JM, et al (2003) Fusion of bone-marrow-derived cells with Purkinje neurons, cardiomyocytes and hepatocytes. Nature 425:968–973

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor R (2006) Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Antoniac I (ed) (2013) Biologically Responsive Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Aoyagi S, Okamura T, Ishii H, Shimoda H (2011) Proposal of a Method for Promotion of Pro Environmental Behavior with Loose Social Network. In: Yao T (ed) Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System.” Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 43–48

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

Fang J (2014) Female Pigs Recognize The Sex of Sperm. In: IFLScience. 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 (1994) Telecommunications: Status of Research on the Safety of Cellular Telephones. 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

Lowe C (2009) A correlational study of the relationship between Learner Autonomy and academic performance. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Stewart JB (2017) In Ditching Netflix, Disney Grabs New Key to Kingdom. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hurtgen 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Schreiber and Rowley 2008; Hurtgen 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schreiber and Rowley 2008)
Three or more authors: (Alvarez-Dolado et al. 2003)

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)