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

Cyranoski D (2001) Referendum stalls Japanese nuclear power strategy. Nature 411:729

A journal article with 2 authors

Silver RA, Kanichay RT (2008) Neuroscience. Refreshing connections. Science 320:183–184

A journal article with 3 authors

Cotton CH, Flint J, Campbell TG (2009) Is there an association between NPY and neuroticism? Nature 458:E6; discussion E7

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dong YH, Wang LH, Xu JL, et al (2001) Quenching quorum-sensing-dependent bacterial infection by an N-acyl homoserine lactonase. Nature 411:813–817

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paoluzzi A, Pascucci V, Vicentino M, et al (2005) Geometric Programming for Computer-Aided Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kreuzer M (2016) Computational Linear and Commutative Algebra. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Harmon-Jones E, Peterson CK, Harmon-Jones C (2010) Anger, Motivation, and Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical Activations. In: Potegal M, Stemmler G, Spielberger C (eds) International Handbook of Anger: Constituent and Concomitant Biological, Psychological, and Social Processes. Springer, New York, NY, pp 61–78

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

Andrew E (2015) Treasure Trove Of Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs Discovered By Road Workers In China. 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 (1992) Earth Observing System: Information on NASA’s Incorporation of Existing Data Into EOSDIS. 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

Xiao S (2012) Effects of adsorbates on the electronic properties of graphene. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Walsh MW (2016) Bills to Empower Puerto Rico to Shed Debt Face Likely G.O.P. Opposition. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski 2001; Silver and Kanichay 2008).

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

Two authors: (Silver and Kanichay 2008)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al. 2001)

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