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

Sánchez-Lavega A (2005) How long is the day on Saturn? Science 307:1223–1224

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwander T, Keller L (2008) Genetic compatibility affects queen and worker caste determination. Science 322:552

A journal article with 3 authors

Pan X, Shao M, Kulkarni SR (2004) A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster. Nature 427:326–328

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rohani P, Green CJ, Mantilla-Beniers NB, Grenfell BT (2003) Ecological interference between fatal diseases. Nature 422:885–888

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wahbi M (2013) Algorithms and Ordering Heuristics for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Cuel R, Young R (eds) (2015) Formal Ontologies Meet Industry: 7th International Workshop, FOMI 2015, Berlin, Germany, August 5, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Specht EJ, Jones HT, Calkins KG, Rhoads DH (2015) Pasch Geometry (PSH). In: Jones HT, Calkins KG, Rhoads DH (eds) Euclidean Geometry and its Subgeometries. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 79–138

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 (2015) New Analysis Reveals No Firm Conclusion On Whether Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Honeybee Populations. 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 (1999) Medical Records Privacy: Uses and Oversight of Patient Information in Research. 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

Rivera A (2010) A post analysis of an advanced access appointment model. 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

Gurley G (2010) Titans in Party Dresses: Socialite, debutante, advocate: all spell Hadley Marie Nagel, who at 19 boasts a résumé over the top. New York Times ST1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sánchez-Lavega 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Sánchez-Lavega 2005; Schwander and Keller 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schwander and Keller 2008)
Three or more authors: (Rohani et al. 2003)

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