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

Ghosh, T., 2015. STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS. Stretch, wrap, and relax to smartness. Science 349, 382–383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forterre, Y., Dumais, J., 2011. Materials science. Generating helices in nature. Science 333, 1715–1716.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loope, D.B., Rowe, C.M., Joeckel, R.M., 2001. Annual monsoon rains recorded by Jurassic dunes. Nature 412, 64–66.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dentin, R., Hedrick, S., Xie, J., Yates, J., 3rd, Montminy, M., 2008. Hepatic glucose sensing via the CREB coactivator CRTC2. Science 319, 1402–1405.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker, M., 2013. Happy-People-Pills For All. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Gjedrem, T., 2009. Selective Breeding in Aquaculture: An Introduction, Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Viesti, G., Donzella, A., Bonomi, G., Botosso, C., Fabris, D., Lunardon, M., Moretto, S., Nebbia, G., Pesente, S., Pino, F., Sajo-Bohus, L., Zenoni, A., 2008. Search of Explosives in Vehicles by Using Tagged Neutrons, in: Schubert, H., Kuznetsov, A. (Eds.), Detection of Liquid Explosives and Flammable Agents in Connection with Terrorism, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 39–46.

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. Our New Anti-Earthquake Technology Could Protect Cities From Destruction [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/our-new-anti-earthquake-technology-could-protect-cities-destruction/ (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, 2016. K-12 Education: Better Use of Information Could Help Agencies Identify Disparities and Address Racial Discrimination (No. GAO-16-345). 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

Rodgers, R., 2017. Phylogenomic Analysis of Fundulidae Using RNA-Sequencing Data (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

Wagner, J., 2017. Lugo’s Tear to Cost Him Two Weeks, Minimum. 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 (Ghosh, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Forterre and Dumais, 2011; Ghosh, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Forterre and Dumais, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Dentin 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