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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Signaling. 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

Bird A. Perceptions of epigenetics. Nature 2007; 447: 396–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Treguer P and Pondaven P. Global change. Silica control of carbon dioxide. Nature 2000; 406: 358–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arora PK, Srivastava A, and Singh VP. Degradation of 4-chloro-3-nitrophenol via a novel intermediate, 4-chlororesorcinol by Pseudomonas sp. JHN. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4475.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dello Russo N, Vervack RJ, Weaver HA, Biver N, Bockelée-Morvan D, Crovisier J, et al. Compositional homogeneity in the fragmented comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. Nature 2007; 448: 172–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambachtsheer KP. The Future of Pension Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016.

An edited book

Pimentel D and Peshin R, editors. Integrated Pest Management: Pesticide Problems, Vol.3. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Caragiannis I, Filos-Ratsikas A, and Procaccia AD. An Improved 2-Agent Kidney Exchange Mechanism. In: Chen N, Elkind E, Koutsoupias E, eds. Internet and Network Economics: 7th International Workshop, WINE 2011, Singapore, December 11-14, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. 37–48.

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 Signaling.

Blog post

Andrew E. Increased Typhoon Intensity Linked To Ocean Warming. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/increased-typhoon-intensity-linked-ocean-warming/ (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. Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Issues Raised by Proposal to Replace the Airline Ticket Tax. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Karyekar M. Translating observation into narration: The ‘sentimental’ anthropology of Georg Forster (1754-1794). 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

Yanagihara H. Nowhere Man. New York Times. 2017; M2128.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Signaling
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Signal.
ISSN (online)	1750-2187
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology