How to format your references using the Molecular Aspects of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Aspects of Medicine. 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

Dowswell, C., 2009. Retroscpective. Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009). Science 326, 381.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lafuerza, L.F., Toral, R., 2013. On the effect of heterogeneity in stochastic interacting-particle systems. Sci. Rep. 3, 1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moree, M., Ewart, S., Diggs, C., 2004. Strength in unity. Nature 430, 938–939.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hajkova, P., Ancelin, K., Waldmann, T., Lacoste, N., Lange, U.C., Cesari, F., Lee, C., Almouzni, G., Schneider, R., Surani, M.A., 2008. Chromatin dynamics during epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line. Nature 452, 877–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lamperti, J.W., 1996. Probability: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kubitzki, K. (Ed.), 2011. Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Agterberg, D.F., 2012. Magnetoelectric Effects, Helical Phases, and FFLO Phases, in: Bauer, E., Sigrist, M. (Eds.), Non-Centrosymmetric Superconductors: Introduction and Overview, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 155–170.

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 Aspects of Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Publish Or Perish Culture Encourages Scientists To Cut Corners [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1995. HUD-Assisted Renters (No. RCED-95-167R). 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

Copeland, A.D., 2013. A qualitative study of clinical oncology nurses’ perceptions of work-life balance (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. In World of Finance, She Has Already Driven the Green. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dowswell, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dowswell, 2009; Lafuerza and Toral, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lafuerza and Toral, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hajkova et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Aspects of Medicine
Abbreviation	Mol. Aspects Med.
ISSN (print)	0098-2997
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine General Medicine