How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 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]

M.S. Livingstone, Is it warm? Is it real? Or just low spatial frequency?, Science 290 (2000) 1299b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Inoue, H. Ohno, Physics. Taking the hall effect for a spin, Science 309 (2005) 2004–2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Q. Wu, M.S. Clark, R.D. Palmiter, Deciphering a neuronal circuit that mediates appetite, Nature 483 (2012) 594–597.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.N. Watkins, D.M. Berman, S.G. Burkholder, B. Wang, P.A. Beachy, S.B. Baylin, Hedgehog signalling within airway epithelial progenitors and in small-cell lung cancer, Nature 422 (2003) 313–317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Greenspan, Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

M. Karch, Android for Work: Productivity for Professionals, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Courbot, G. Grimaud, J.-J. Vandewalle, Romization: Early Deployment and Customization of Java Systems for Constrained Devices, in: G. Barthe, B. Grégoire, M. Huisman, J.-L. Lanet (Eds.), Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure, and Interoperable Smart Devices: Second International Workshop, CASSIS 2005, Nice, France, March 8-11, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 57–76.

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 Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Is There A Planet X?, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-planet-x/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Maritime Administration: Weaknesses Identified in Management of the Title XI Loan Guarantee Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Mishne, An investigation of the relationships between technology use and teachers’ self-efficacy, knowledge and experience, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

B. Sisario, Opening Challenge for Prince Museum, New York Times (2016) C3.

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 Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2828
Scope	Molecular Biology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine