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

Zeki S (2000) Abstraction and idealism. Nature 404:547

A journal article with 2 authors

Magnus D, Cho MK (2005) Ethics. Issues in oocyte donation for stem cell research. Science 308:1747–1748

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurland CG, Collins LJ, Penny D (2006) Genomics and the irreducible nature of eukaryote cells. Science 312:1011–1014

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cummings DAT, Irizarry RA, Huang NE, et al (2004) Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand. Nature 427:344–347

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor K, Aardema F, Pélissier M-C (2006) Beyond Reasonable Doubt. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Brunner RD (2010) Adaptive Governance and Climate Change. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Mackay AL (2015) Food for Thought. In: Hargittai B, Hargittai I (eds) Culture of Chemistry: The Best Articles on the Human Side of 20th-Century Chemistry from the Archives of the Chemical Intelligencer. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 29–30

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

Luntz S (2017) Meet The Newly Discovered Worm Snail That Thinks It’s Spiderman. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-the-newly-discovered-worm-snail-that-thinks-its-spiderman/. 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 (2002) Information Technology: Justice Plans to Improve Oversight of Agency 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

Klippel SA (2005) The Celtic siren: A case study of William Sharp’s seduction experience in which the numinous other is understood and interpreted. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Gustines GG (2017) Captain America Will Fight Evil Again. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zeki 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Zeki 2000; Magnus and Cho 2005).

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

Two authors: (Magnus and Cho 2005)
Three or more authors: (Cummings et al. 2004)

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

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