How to format your references using the Metabolic Brain Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Metabolic Brain Disease. 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

Smaglik P (2004) The best years of our lives. Nature 430:121

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis CC, Wurdack KJ (2004) Host-to-parasite gene transfer in flowering plants: phylogenetic evidence from Malpighiales. Science 305:676–678

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugrue LP, Corrado GS, Newsome WT (2004) Matching behavior and the representation of value in the parietal cortex. Science 304:1782–1787

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mikkola HKA, Klintman J, Yang H, et al (2003) Haematopoietic stem cells retain long-term repopulating activity and multipotency in the absence of stem-cell leukaemia SCL/tal-1 gene. Nature 421:547–551

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sun B (2016) Multiphase Flow in Oil and Gas Well Drilling. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Bridges DS (2011) Apartness and Uniformity: A Constructive Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lawrence A, Djemame K, Wäldrich O, et al (2011) Using Service Level Agreements for Optimising Cloud Infrastructure Services. In: Cezon M, Wolfsthal Y (eds) Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops: International Workshops, OCS, EMSOA, SMART, and EDBPM 2010, Ghent, Belgium, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 38–49

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 Metabolic Brain Disease.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Seaweed Tastes Just Like Bacon When Fried. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/engineered-nutricious-and-delicious-algae-tastes-bacon/. 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 (1971) Federal Funds Misused by the School System in Trimble County, Kentucky. 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

Dotson KT (2009) Smoke points of microgravity and normal gravity coflow diffusion flames. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kang C (2017) What’s at Stake in the Discussions Between Comcast, Charter and Sprint. New York Times B7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Davis and Wurdack 2004).

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

Two authors: (Davis and Wurdack 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mikkola et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Metabolic Brain Disease
Abbreviation	Metab. Brain Dis.
ISSN (print)	0885-7490
ISSN (online)	1573-7365
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience