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

Gavaghan, H. (2000). Europe seeks solution to bioinformatics shortfall. Nature, 404(6778), 687–688.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanson, R., & Awschalom, D. D. (2008). Coherent manipulation of single spins in semiconductors. Nature, 453(7198), 1043–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fehr, E., Bernhard, H., & Rockenbach, B. (2008). Egalitarianism in young children. Nature, 454(7208), 1079–1083.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Neumann, M., Nyéki, J., Cowan, B., & Saunders, J. (2007). Bilayer 3He: a simple two-dimensional heavy-fermion system with quantum criticality. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5843), 1356–1359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Briffaut, J.-P. (2015). E-Enabled Operations Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yamada, K. M. T., & Winnewisser, G. (Eds.). (2011). Interstellar Molecules: Their Laboratory and Interstellar Habitat (Vol. 241). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pandya, P. K., & Shah, S. S. (2011). On Expressive Powers of Timed Logics: Comparing Boundedness, Non-punctuality, and Deterministic Freezing. In J.-P. Katoen & B. König (Eds.), CONCUR 2011 – Concurrency Theory: 22nd International Conference, CONCUR 2011, Aachen, Germany, September 6-9, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 60–75). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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, D. (2016, September 2). How Does A Computer Know Where You’re Looking? 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. (2008). Transportation Security: Transportation Worker Identification Credential: A Status Update (No. GAO-08-1151T). 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

Hankins, S. (2010). A policy analysis of the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015, February 27). Friday File. New York Times, p. C27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gavaghan 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gavaghan 2000; Hanson and Awschalom 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hanson and Awschalom 2008)
Three or more authors: (Neumann et al. 2007)

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