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

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

Rodbell DT (2000) PALEOCLIMATE: The Younger Dryas: Cold, Cold Everywhere? Science 290:285–286

A journal article with 2 authors

Lease RO, Ehlers TA (2013) Incision into the eastern Andean Plateau during Pliocene cooling. Science 341:774–776

A journal article with 3 authors

Ashton A, Murray AB, Arnault O (2001) Formation of coastline features by large-scale instabilities induced by high-angle waves. Nature 414:296–300

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Krüger J, Thomas CM, Golstein C, et al (2002) A tomato cysteine protease required for Cf-2-dependent disease resistance and suppression of autonecrosis. Science 296:744–747

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hofmeyr GJ, Neilson JP, Alfirevic Z, et al (2008) A Cochrane Pocketbook: Pregnancy and Childbirth. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Shiffman MA, Di Giuseppe A (eds) (2016) Liposuction: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Pendergast JM, Ward JL, de Pontet SB (2011) The Vital Role of the Board in Family Business Continuity Planning. In: Ward JL, Pontet SB de (eds) Building a Successful Family Business Board: A Guide for Leaders, Directors, and Families. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 53–66

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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2011) Potential HIV Vaccine Moves Into Next Testing Phase. 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 (1997) Commercial Trucking: Safety Concerns About Mexican Trucks Remain Even as Inspection Activity Increases. 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

Cubarrubia AP (2009) Exploring the influence of external standards of institutional effectiveness on program assessment in student affairs. 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

Corkery M, Walsh MW (2017) Puerto Rico Message: An Easy Bet Might Lose. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rodbell 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rodbell 2000; Lease and Ehlers 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lease and Ehlers 2013)
Three or more authors: (Krüger et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0895-8696
ISSN (online)	1559-1166
Scope	General Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience