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

Valentine DL. Microbiology: intraterrestrial lifestyles. Nature. 2013;496(7444):176-177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norenzayan A, Shariff AF. The origin and evolution of religious prosociality. Science. 2008;322(5898):58-62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hedrick TL, Cheng B, Deng X. Wingbeat time and the scaling of passive rotational damping in flapping flight. Science. 2009;324(5924):252-255.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Webster SM, Del Camino D, Dekker JP, Yellen G. Intracellular gate opening in Shaker K+ channels defined by high-affinity metal bridges. Nature. 2004;428(6985):864-868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner-Martin L. A History of American Literature. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Choudhury B. PBG Based Terahertz Antenna for Aerospace Applications. 1st ed. 2016. (Danana B, Jha RM, eds.). Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Barenghi A, Hocquet C, Bol D, Standaert F-X, Regazzoni F, Koren I. Exploring the Feasibility of Low Cost Fault Injection Attacks on Sub-threshold Devices through an Example of a 65nm AES Implementation. In: Juels A, Paar C, eds. RFID. Security and Privacy: 7th International Workshop, RFIDSec 2011, Amherst, USA, June 26-28, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012:48-60.

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

Andrew E. Bionic Power Trousers Could Help Us Get Up The Stairs. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bionic-power-trousers-could-help-us-get-stairs/. 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. Joint Planning and Development Office: Progress and Key Issues in Planning the Transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System. 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

Burchman EK. A dialogue on improvisation, space and melody: Larry Koonse’s approach to improvisation. 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

Vecsey G. Chase Is Over, But Pressure Is Still On. New York Times. August 5, 2010:B12.

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