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

Ostrom, E., 2009. A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science 325, 419–422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koelle, K., Rasmussen, D.A., 2014. Influenza: Prediction is worth a shot. Nature 507, 47–48.

A journal article with 3 authors

Melchor, R.N., Buchwaldt, R., Bowring, S., 2013. A Late Eocene date for Late Triassic bird tracks. Nature 495, E1-2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nakamichi, Y., Yoshioka, A., Kawai, S., Murata, K., 2013. Conferring the ability to utilize inorganic polyphosphate on ATP-specific NAD kinase. Sci. Rep. 3, 2632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diels, J.-C., Arissian, L., 2011. Lasers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Vicini, C., Hoff, P.T., Montevecchi, F. (Eds.), 2016. TransOral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Practical Guide to Surgical Approach and Patient Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wajnberg, E., 2010. Genetics of the Behavioral Ecology of Egg Parasitoids, in: Consoli, F.L., Parra, J.R.P., Zucchi, R.A. (Eds.), Egg Parasitoids in Agroecosystems with Emphasis on Trichogramma. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 149–165.

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

Evans, K., 2017. Earth Has A Brand-New Continent Called Zealandia, And It’s Been Hiding In Plain Sight For Ages [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-has-a-brandnew-continent-called-zealandia-and-its-been-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-ages/ (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, 1986. Data Processing: SBA Needs To Strengthen Management of Its Computer Systems (No. IMTEC-86-28). 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

Eakman, T.L., 2017. Education Level and Critical Thinking Skills Among Substance Use Counselors Nationwide: A Descriptive Comparative Study (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Hodgman, J., 2016. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM38.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ostrom, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Koelle and Rasmussen, 2014; Ostrom, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Koelle and Rasmussen, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Nakamichi et al., 2013)

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