How to format your references using the Metabolism citation style

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

[1]

Finkelstein G. Essays on science and society. Romanticism, race, and recapitulation. Science 2001;294:2101–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Krishnan R, Lindquist SL. Structural insights into a yeast prion illuminate nucleation and strain diversity. Nature 2005;435:765–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lutz W, Cuaresma JC, Sanderson W. Economics. The demography of educational attainment and economic growth. Science 2008;319:1047–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Itatani J, Levesque J, Zeidler D, Niikura H, Pépin H, Kieffer JC, et al. Tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals. Nature 2004;432:867–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sexton D. Trump University Branding 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Capasso V. An Introduction to Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes: Theory, Models, and Applications to Finance, Biology, and Medicine. 3rd ed. 2015. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bennett L. Drug Delivery to Specific Compartments of the Eye. In: Addo RT, editor. Ocular Drug Delivery: Advances, Challenges and Applications, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 37–52.

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 Metabolism.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Fluorescent Embryos Could Unlock Secrets of Development. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fluorescent-embryos-could-unlock-secrets-development/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Chemical Assessments: An Agencywide Strategy May Help EPA Address Unmet Needs for Integrated Risk Information System Assessments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wright NC. The association between rheumatoid arthritis, bone strength, and body composition within the women’s health initiative. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2010.

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

[1]

Crow K. In Chinatown, Bulgarian Red Means Wine, Not Politics. New York Times 2000:147.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Metabolism
Abbreviation	Metabolism
ISSN (print)	0026-0495
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism