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

Brown RH Jr (2008) Developmental biology. Neuron research leaps ahead. Science 321:1169–1170

A journal article with 2 authors

Krishnan R, Lindquist SL (2005) Structural insights into a yeast prion illuminate nucleation and strain diversity. Nature 435:765–772

A journal article with 3 authors

Joughin I, Alley RB, Holland DM (2012) Ice-sheet response to oceanic forcing. Science 338:1172–1176

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nilsson D-E, Gislén L, Coates MM, et al (2005) Advanced optics in a jellyfish eye. Nature 435:201–205

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke R (2007) Classical Algebra: Its Nature, Origins, and Uses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

de Virgilio C, Frank PN, Grigorian A (eds) (2015) Surgery: A Case Based Clinical Review. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang J, Xu J-X (2012) Point Mapping under Cell Reference - A Two Scaled Numerical Method for Global Analysis. In: Sun J-Q, Luo ACJ (eds) Global Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 107–137

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 D (2016) It’s Time To Speak Up About Noise Pollution In The Oceans. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/its-time-to-speak-up-about-noise-pollution-in-the-oceans/. 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 (2014) Aviation Security: Rapid Growth in Expedited Passenger Screening Highlights Need to Plan Effective Security Assessments. 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

Richard K (2017) College Programs in Women’s Prisons: Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Higher Education Behind Bars. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES (2017) Early Spring Flowers. New York Times RE10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Krishnan and Lindquist 2005; Brown 2008).

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

Two authors: (Krishnan and Lindquist 2005)
Three or more authors: (Nilsson et al. 2005)

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