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:

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

Beers TC (2005) Astronomy. The first generations of stars. Science 309:390–391

A journal article with 2 authors

Singer AL, Koretzky GA (2002) Control of T cell function by positive and negative regulators. Science 296:1639–1640

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu F, Luo W, Hong M (2010) Mechanisms of proton conduction and gating in influenza M2 proton channels from solid-state NMR. Science 330:505–508

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hoffman N, Knauth LP, Klonowski S, et al (2000) Ideas about the surface runoff features on Mars. Science 290:711c–4c

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Markley NG (2004) Principles of Differential Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Benner Carson V (2015) Care Giving for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Compassionate Guide for Clinicians and Loved Ones. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Ziche P (2016) Theories of Order in Carnap’s Aufbau. In: Damböck C (ed) Influences on the Aufbau. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–97

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

Luntz S (2014) A Subsurface Ocean on Pluto? 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 (2010) Department of Education: Improved Dissemination and Timely Product Release Would Enhance the Usefulness of the What Works Clearinghouse. 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

Dillon KS (2009) Social support to families of children with special needs: A grant. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Van Gelder SKC by L (2005) Arts, Briefly; Russia: Happy Birthday, Maya. New York Times E2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beers 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Singer and Koretzky 2002; Beers 2005).

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

Two authors: (Singer and Koretzky 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hoffman et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
Abbreviation	J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil.
ISSN (print)	0142-4319
ISSN (online)	1573-2657
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Physiology