How to format your references using the Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics citation style

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

Kuo AD (2005) Biophysics. Harvesting energy by improving the economy of human walking. Science 309:1686–1687

A journal article with 2 authors

James JR, Vale RD (2012) Biophysical mechanism of T-cell receptor triggering in a reconstituted system. Nature 487:64–69

A journal article with 3 authors

Asphaug E, Agnor CB, Williams Q (2006) Hit-and-run planetary collisions. Nature 439:155–160

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Simmonds RW, Marchenkov A, Hoskinson E, et al (2001) Quantum interference of superfluid 3He. Nature 412:55–58

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dinet J (2014) Information Retrieval in Digital Environments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wager JF (2008) Transparent Electronics. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Guruzu S, Xu G, Liang H (2006) Friction-Induced Nucleation of Nanocrystals. In: Chuang T-J, Anderson PM, Wu M-K, Hsieh S (eds) Nanomechanics of Materials and Structures. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 45–54

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 Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Safety Of Contaminated Vitamins And Nutritional Supplements Can’t Be Left To Consumers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/safety-contaminated-vitamins-and-nutritional-supplements-can-t-be-left-consumers/. 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 (2003) Student Financial Aid: Monitoring Aid Greater Than Federally Defined Need Could Help Address Student Loan Indebtedness. 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

McFarland-Mancini M (2006) Prolactin Production by Human Breast Adipose Tissue and Adipocytes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Feeney K (2008) Hearty, and Classic, Favorites. New York Times NJ9

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	Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Mol. Cell. Pediatr.
ISSN (online)	2194-7791
Scope