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

Kupferschmidt K (2015) Global health. Report prescribes strong medicine for WHO. Science 349:223–224

A journal article with 2 authors

Wong W, Barlow H (2000) Tunes and templates. Nature 404:952–953

A journal article with 3 authors

Maruyama M, Lam KP, Rajewsky K (2000) Memory B-cell persistence is independent of persisting immunizing antigen. Nature 407:636–642

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boccaccio C, Sabatino G, Medico E, et al (2005) The MET oncogene drives a genetic programme linking cancer to haemostasis. Nature 434:396–400

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crowl DA (2003) Understanding Explosions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Fry H, Kneebone R (2011) Surgical Education: Theorising an Emerging Domain. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kushalnagar R, Ramachandran V, Oh T (2014) Tactile Captions: Augmenting Visual Captions. In: Miesenberger K, Fels D, Archambault D, et al (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part I. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 25–32

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

Taub B (2016) New Study May Reveal How The Galapagos Islands Became So Biodiverse. 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 (1996) DOD Dependents Schools: Cost Issues Associated With the Special Education 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

Lotrecchiano GR (2012) Social Mechanisms of Team Science: A Descriptive Case Study Using a Multilevel Systems Perspective Employing Reciprocating Structuration Theory. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Brantley B (2016) Diverting, but No Need to Stop the Presses. New York Times C1

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