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

Brash DE (2015) Cancer. Preprocancer. Science 348:867–868

A journal article with 2 authors

Neale MJ, Keeney S (2006) Clarifying the mechanics of DNA strand exchange in meiotic recombination. Nature 442:153–158

A journal article with 3 authors

Lykke-Andersen J, Shu MD, Steitz JA (2001) Communication of the position of exon-exon junctions to the mRNA surveillance machinery by the protein RNPS1. Science 293:1836–1839

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Manzoni G, Briquet S, Risco-Castillo V, et al (2014) A rapid and robust selection procedure for generating drug-selectable marker-free recombinant malaria parasites. Sci Rep 4:4760

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Avlonas N, Nassos GP (2013) Practical Sustainability Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

A OMS, Farshid GP (eds) (2015) Post-Traumatic Arthritis: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Management. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Suoranta S, Andrade A, Aura T (2012) Strong Authentication with Mobile Phone. In: Gollmann D, Freiling FC (eds) Information Security: 15th International Conference, ISC 2012, Passau, Germany, September 19-21, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 70–85

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

Andrew E (2014) Paraplegic In “Ironman Suit” Will Take The First Kick In The 2014 World Cup. 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 (1989) ADP Acquisition: Air Force Logistics System Modernization Projects. 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

Arnold JM (2009) Accountability in British Columbia: A case study connecting policy and practice. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Williams TC (2017) Radical Ambition. New York Times MM24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brash 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Neale and Keeney 2006; Brash 2015).

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

Two authors: (Neale and Keeney 2006)
Three or more authors: (Manzoni et al. 2014)

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