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

Martin T (2006) Paleontology. Early mammalian evolutionary experiments. Science 311:1109–1110

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwarzkopf DS, Rees G (2010) Neuroscience. Brain activity to rely on? Science 327:43–44

A journal article with 3 authors

Gong Y, Mo C, Fraser SE (2004) Planar cell polarity signalling controls cell division orientation during zebrafish gastrulation. Nature 430:689–693

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Han X, Lee R, Chen T, et al (2013) Kinetic evidence of an apparent negative activation enthalpy in an organocatalytic process. Sci Rep 3:2557

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welker RW, Nagarajan R, Newberg CE (2005) Contamination and ESD Control in High-Technology Manufacturing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kaye AD, Urman RD, Vadivelu N (2012) Essentials of Regional Anesthesia, 1st ed. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Rogers CJ, Colbert LH, Perkins SN, Hursting SD (2011) Calorie Restriction, Exercise, and Colon Cancer Prevention: A Mechanistic Perspective. In: McTiernan A (ed) Physical Activity, Dietary Calorie Restriction, and Cancer. Springer, New York, NY, pp 69–97

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) Leading Space Entrepreneur Thinks Aliens Are Visiting Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/leading-space-entrepreneur-thinks-aliens-are-visiting-earth/. 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 (1982) Department of Commerce Could Save $24.6 Million by Modifying Computer Procurement Actions. 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

Bornheimer ME (2010) The influence of leadership development programs on the community college leadership shortage: A case study. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Gondelman J (2017) A Comedian’s Most Important Set. New York Times SR6

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