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

Rubin EM (2008) Genomics of cellulosic biofuels. Nature 454:841–845

A journal article with 2 authors

Dong KC, Berger JM (2007) Structural basis for gate-DNA recognition and bending by type IIA topoisomerases. Nature 450:1201–1205

A journal article with 3 authors

Sturm M, Racine C, Tape K (2001) Climate change. Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic. Nature 411:546–547

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liao S, Zhang W, Fan K, et al (2013) Ionic strength-dependent conformations of a ubiquitin-like small archaeal modifier protein (SAMP2) from Haloferax volcanii. Sci Rep 3:2136

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakshi AB, Prasanna VK (2007) Architecture-Independent Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gong X (2014) Social Group Utility Maximization. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Higgott R (2012) Economic Multilateralism: A Search for Legitimacy and Coherence in the Early Twenty-first Century. In: Telò M (ed) State, Globalization and Multilateralism: The challenges of institutionalizing regionalism. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 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 Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Motor Neuron Disease Linked To Schizophrenia, And Treatment Might Be Getting Closer. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/motor-neuron-disease-linked-to-schizophrenia-and-treatment-might-be-getting-closer/. 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 (1973) Effective Central Control Could Improve DOD’s Ammunition Logistics. 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

Lupian S (2012) Educating the Latino community on the relationship between obesity and psychosocial well being. 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

(nyt) SK (2003) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Hearing On Media Curbs. New York Times A6

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