How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular Histology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Histology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Andreae MO (2013) Atmospheric science. The aerosol nucleation puzzle. Science 339:911–912

A journal article with 2 authors

Hollowed AB, Sundby S (2014) Ecology. Change is coming to the northern oceans. Science 344:1084–1085

A journal article with 3 authors

Medina JF, Nores WL, Mauk MD (2002) Inhibition of climbing fibres is a signal for the extinction of conditioned eyelid responses. Nature 416:330–333

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li X, Zhang F, Niu Q, Feng J (2014) Superlattice valley engineering for designer topological insulators. Sci Rep 4:6397

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane MJ (2015) The Mission-Driven Venture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Márquez A, Ramos P, Urrutia J (eds) (2012) Computational Geometry: XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, EGC 2011, Dedicated to Ferran Hurtado on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 27-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Maasoumy M, Nuzzo P, Sangiovanni-Vincentelli A (2015) Smart Buildings in the Smart Grid: Contract-Based Design of an Integrated Energy Management System. In: Khaitan SK, McCalley JD, Liu CC (eds) Cyber Physical Systems Approach to Smart Electric Power Grid. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 103–132

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 Histology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Measles Denier Forced To Pay €100,000 To Doctor Who Proved Measles Is A Virus. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/measles-denier-made-pay/. 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 (1986) Telephone Communications: Bypass of the Local Telephone Companies. 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

Valenzuela MA (2017) Pitties for the Kiddies: An Animal-Assisted Therapy Program. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Berkon B (2016) Jewish Player’s Card From 1914 Provokes a $125,000 Dispute. New York Times D5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andreae 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Andreae 2013; Hollowed and Sundby 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hollowed and Sundby 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Histology
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Histol.
ISSN (print)	1567-2379
ISSN (online)	1567-2387
Scope	Cell Biology Physiology General Medicine Histology