How to format your references using the Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders (MET). 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	Download the output style file
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

Piston DW. Research tools: Understand how it works. Nature 2012;484(7395):440–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tyc T, Zhang X. Forum Optics: Perfect lenses in focus. Nature 2011;480(7375):42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun L, Song K, Hase WL. A SN2 reaction that avoids its deep potential energy minimum. Science 2002;296(5569):875–878.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Moseler M, Gumbsch P, Casiraghi C, et al. The ultrasmoothness of diamond-like carbon surfaces. Science 2005;309(5740):1545–1548.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer A. Shifting the Earth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2011.

An edited book

Berkman PA, Vylegzhanin AN, (eds). Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Lynn R, Chen A, Locks S, et al. Intelligent and Accessible Data Flow Architectures for Manufacturing System Optimization. In: Advances in Production Management Systems: Innovative Production Management Towards Sustainable Growth: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2015, Tokyo, Japan, September 7-9, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. (Umeda S, Nakano M, Mizuyama H, et al. eds). IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015; pp. 27–35.

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 Syndrome and Related Disorders.

Blog post

Davis J. Tigers Seized By Officials From Controversial Tiger Temple In Thailand. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tigers-seized-officials-tiger-temple-thailand/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Federal Assistance Provided to Institutions of Higher Education. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Kwon Y. Extreme Value Estimators: Their Long Memory Feature and Forecasting Performances in the U.S. Stock Indexes. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 2009.

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

Wagner J. Patchwork Mets Give Their Playoff Hopes a Boost. New York Times 2016;B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders
ISSN (print)	1540-4196
ISSN (online)	1557-8518
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