How to format your references using the Metabolomics citation style

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

Leroy, A. (2015). Astrophysics: Glimpse into a primitive stellar nursery. Nature, 525(7568), 195–197.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carmeliet, P., & Jain, R. K. (2011). Molecular mechanisms and clinical applications of angiogenesis. Nature, 473(7347), 298–307.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmith, T., Johansen, S., & Thejll, P. (2007). Comment on “A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5846), 1866; author reply 1866.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schroeder, C. M., Babcock, H. P., Shaqfeh, E. S. G., & Chu, S. (2003). Observation of polymer conformation hysteresis in extensional flow. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5639), 1515–1519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2010). A Practical Approach to Hazard Identification for Operations and Maintenance Workers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Silhavy, R., Senkerik, R., Oplatkova, Z. K., Silhavy, P., & Prokopova, Z. (Eds.). (2016). Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the 5th Computer Science On-line Conference 2016 (CSOC2016), Vol 1 (Vol. 464). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kerenidis, I., Laurière, M., & Xiao, D. (2014). New Lower Bounds for Privacy in Communication Protocols. In C. Padró (Ed.), Information Theoretic Security: 7th International Conference, ICITS 2013, Singapore, November 28-30, 2013, Proceedings (pp. 69–89). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Metabolomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 8). Stroke Patients Recovering After Receiving Stem Cell Therapy. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1981). Review of Yolo County, California, Economic Opportunity Commission Concerning Matters Affecting Local Poverty Programs (No. HRD-81-110). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bakhoda, A. (2013). Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Ru(II) Vinylidenes (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Joy, S. (2016, November 30). Dare to Be Daring. New York Times, p. D13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leroy 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Carmeliet and Jain 2011; Leroy 2015).

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

Two authors: (Carmeliet and Jain 2011)
Three or more authors: (Schroeder et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Metabolomics
Abbreviation	Metabolomics
ISSN (print)	1573-3882
ISSN (online)	1573-3890
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism