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

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

Savage N (2011) Algae: The scum solution. Nature 474:S15-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Shizgal P, Arvanitogiannis A (2003) Neuroscience. Gambling on dopamine. Science 299:1856–1858

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee H, Lee BP, Messersmith PB (2007) A reversible wet/dry adhesive inspired by mussels and geckos. Nature 448:338–341

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Goyal A, Sokalingam S, Hwang K-S, Lee S-G (2014) Identification of an ideal-like fingerprint for a protein fold using overlapped conserved residues based approach. Sci Rep 4:5643

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grimes RA (2017) Hacking the Hacker. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

An edited book

Chakraborty T (2007) Charge Migration in DNA: Perspectives from Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mackay IR, Martinez-Neira R, Whittingham S, et al (2008) Autoantigenicity of Actin. In: Remedios CG dos, Chhabra D (eds) Actin-Binding Proteins and Disease. Springer, New York, NY, pp 50–64

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 Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Neil deGrasse Tyson Annihilates Anti-GMO Argument. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/neil-degrasse-tyson-annihilates-anti-gmo-argument/. 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) National Airspace System: Experts’ Views on Improving the U.S. Air Traffic Control Modernization Program. 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

Vincent PS (2012) The State of Chaos. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Pilon M (2012) Men’s and Women’s 800-Meter Teams Are Settled. New York Times B12

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 Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Med.
ISSN (print)	0946-2716
ISSN (online)	1432-1440
Scope	Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical) Drug Discovery