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

Segal HP (2001) Back to the future from 1888. Nature 409:563

A journal article with 2 authors

Liston C, Kagan J (2002) Brain development: memory enhancement in early childhood. Nature 419:896

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao M, Dong W, Wang A (2013) Two-dimensional carbon topological insulators superior to graphene. Sci Rep 3:3532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yoshida T, Jones LE, Ellner SP, et al (2003) Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator-prey system. Nature 424:303–306

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirsh SJ (2009) Media and Youth. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Scott-Conner CEH (ed) (2008) The SAGES Manual of Strategic Decision Making: Case Studies in Minimal Access Surgery. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Ullmann J (2014) Fuels. In: Reif K (ed) Diesel Engine Management: Systems and Components. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, pp 34–45

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 (2015) How To Build A City Fit For 50℃ Heatwaves. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-build-city-fit-50-heatwaves/. 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 (2008) Native Hawaiian Education Act: Greater Oversight Would Increase Accountability and Enable Targeting of Funds to Areas with Greatest Need. 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

Kamis RP (2013) The Relationship between Expanded Concepts of Self and Well-Being. 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

Walsh MW (2011) Claiming Fraud in A.I.G. Bailout, Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Names 3 Companies. New York Times B6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Segal 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Segal 2001; Liston and Kagan 2002).

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

Two authors: (Liston and Kagan 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yoshida et al. 2003)

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