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

Gammon K (2012) Mathematical modelling: Forecasting cancer. Nature 491:S66-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Sieweke MH, Allen JE (2013) Beyond stem cells: self-renewal of differentiated macrophages. Science 342:1242974

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu F, Ma J, Han S (2014) Adsorption of tetracycline from aqueous solutions onto multi-walled carbon nanotubes with different oxygen contents. Sci Rep 4:5326

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Capadona JR, Shanmuganathan K, Tyler DJ, et al (2008) Stimuli-responsive polymer nanocomposites inspired by the sea cucumber dermis. Science 319:1370–1374

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armaroli N, Balzani V, Serpone N (2013) Powering Planet Earth. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Jain SM, Priyadarshan PM (eds) (2009) Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Tropical Species. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Hafsaoui A, Urvoy-Keller G, Collange D, et al (2011) Understanding the Impact of the Access Technology: The Case of Web Search Services. In: Domingo-Pascual J, Shavitt Y, Uhlig S (eds) Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: Third International Workshop, TMA 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–50

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) Genome Editing Poses Ethical Problems That We Cannot Ignore. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genome-editing-poses-ethical-problems-we-cannot-ignore/. 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 (1995) NSF’s Academic Facilities Program. 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

Collins JD (2012) Answers in diagenesis: Assessing mussel shell diagenesis in the modern vadose zone at Lyon’s Bluff (22OK520), northeast Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Johnson G (2015) Dark Matter’s Deep Reach. New York Times D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gammon 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gammon 2012; Sieweke and Allen 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sieweke and Allen 2013)
Three or more authors: (Capadona et al. 2008)

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

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