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

Braun J. Journal club. A geoscientist ponders possible links between erosion and Earth’s climate. Nature. 2010;466(7304):299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iwasaki A, Medzhitov R. Regulation of adaptive immunity by the innate immune system. Science. 2010;327(5963):291-295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Du M, Wang Z, Hu H. Measuring memory with the order of fractional derivative. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3431.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hudson EW, Lang KM, Madhavan V, et al. Interplay of magnetism and high-Tc superconductivity at individual Ni impurity atoms in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta. Nature. 2001;411(6840):920-924.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nakhjiri M, Nakhjiri M. AAA and Network Security for Mobile Access. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Satapathy SC, Bhatt YC, Joshi A, Mishra DK, eds. Proceedings of the International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2015, Volume 1. Vol 438. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Eadie MJ, Vajda F. The Older Antiepileptic Drugs. In: Vajda F, ed. Antiepileptic Drugs and Pregnancy: A Guide for Prescribers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:27-66.

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 D. Astronomers Have Filmed A Giant, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid Flying Through Space — And One Day It Just Might Hit Earth. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-filmed-a-giant-peanutshaped-asteroid-flying-through-space-and-one-day-it-just-might-hit-earth/. 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. Federally Funded Research: Controlling Inappropriate Access to Research Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramberg KS. L’envers et l’endroit: The other side of the cloth. 2010.

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

Wagner J. Mets Catch a Break, Then Catch Fire, to Defeat the Braves on Opening Day. New York Times. April 3, 2017:B9.

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

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