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

Delude C (2011) Tumorigenesis: Testing ground for cancer stem cells. Nature 480:S43-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Silver PG, Holt WE (2002) The mantle flow field beneath western North America. Science 295:1054–1057

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiser MJ, Ribeck N, Lenski RE (2013) Long-term dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations. Science 342:1364–1367

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bakolitsa C, Cohen DM, Bankston LA, et al (2004) Structural basis for vinculin activation at sites of cell adhesion. Nature 430:583–586

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith CL (2012) Distillation Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Warren N, Manderson L (eds) (2013) Reframing Disability and Quality of Life: A Global Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Chen L-L, Zhao JC (2014) Functional Analysis of Long Noncoding RNAs in Development and Disease. In: Yeo GW (ed) Systems Biology of RNA Binding Proteins. Springer, New York, NY, pp 129–158

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) Disappearing Hedgehogs Show Familiarity May Be A Curse. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/disappearing-hedgehogs-show-familiarity-may-be-curse/. 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 (2000) Electronic Government: Government Paperwork Elimination Act Presents Challenges for Agencies. 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

Willis TY (2012) Rare but there: An intersectional exploration of the experiences and outcomes of Black women who studied abroad through community college programs. 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

Vecsey G (2010) Cosby Can Laugh Now, but Football Was Serious Business. New York Times SP5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Delude 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Silver and Holt 2002; Delude 2011).

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

Two authors: (Silver and Holt 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bakolitsa et al. 2004)

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