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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Recognition (JMR). 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

Ferguson SM. MEDICINE. Membrane traffic en route to cancer. Science. 2015;350(6257):162-163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zindl CL, Chaplin DD. Immunology. Tumor immune evasion. Science. 2010;328(5979):697-698.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz W, Sanderson W, Scherbov S. The coming acceleration of global population ageing. Nature. 2008;451(7179):716-719.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hanage WP, Fraser C, Tang J, Connor TR, Corander J. Hyper-recombination, diversity, and antibiotic resistance in pneumococcus. Science. 2009;324(5933):1454-1457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camarillo G, García-Martín MA. The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Wu J, ed. Transcriptomics and Gene Regulation. Vol 9. 1st ed. 2016. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Alam MD, Gühl UF. Templates. In: Gühl UF, ed. Project-Management in Practice: A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016:127-152.

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 Recognition.

Blog post

Fang J. 10,000 Years of Bones Reveal How Climate Affected Bunny Booms in the Past. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/10000-years-bones-reveal-how-climate-affected-bunny-booms-past/. Accessed October 30, 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. Information Technology: VA and DOD Are Making Progress in Sharing Medical Information, but Are Far from Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Friedlander MB. Limited Sight Distance. 2014.

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

Billard M. You Don’t Hide Behind These. New York Times. April 22, 2010:E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Recognition
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Recognit.
ISSN (print)	0952-3499
ISSN (online)	1099-1352
Scope	Molecular Biology Structural Biology