How to format your references using the Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Pockley P (2001) Climate change transforms island ecosystem. Nature 410:616
A journal article with 2 authors
Lumpkin EA, Caterina MJ (2007) Mechanisms of sensory transduction in the skin. Nature 445:858–865
A journal article with 3 authors
Wang Z, Szolnoki A, Perc M (2013) Optimal interdependence between networks for the evolution of cooperation. Sci Rep 3:2470
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Minami K, Okamoto K, Doi K, et al (2014) siRNA delivery targeting to the lung via agglutination-induced accumulation and clearance of cationic tetraamino fullerene. Sci Rep 4:4916

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Jelaska D (2012) Gears and Gear Drives. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
Marzluff JM, Shulenberger E, Endlicher W, et al (eds) (2008) Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature. Springer US, Boston, MA
A chapter in an edited book
Gollwitzer M, van Prooijen J-W (2016) Psychology of Justice. In: Sabbagh C, Schmitt M (eds) Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research. Springer, New York, NY, pp 61–82

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 Muscle Research and Cell Motility.

Blog post
Andrew E (2016) Gene Linked To Youthful Appearance May Help Solve Ageing Puzzle. In: IFLScience. 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 (1990) Air Traffic Control: The Interim Support Plan Does Not Meet FAA’s Needs. 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
Mazgaeen L (2017) Differential RNAi Approaches to Enhance Knockdown Efficiency of Target Gene Transcripts in the Highly DDT-Resistant 91-R Strain of Drosophila melanogaster. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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
Stewart JB (2017) Snap Stretches the Limits of Valuation. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Pockley 2001; Lumpkin and Caterina 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Lumpkin and Caterina 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Minami et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
AbbreviationJ. Muscle Res. Cell Motil.
ISSN (print)0142-4319
ISSN (online)1573-2657
ScopeBiochemistry
Cell Biology
Physiology

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