How to format your references using the Molecular Autism citation style

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

1. Miller RJD. Femtosecond crystallography with ultrabright electrons and x-rays: capturing chemistry in action. Science. 2014;343:1108–16.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rader DJ, Daugherty A. Translating molecular discoveries into new therapies for atherosclerosis. Nature. 2008;451:904–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Euler T, Detwiler PB, Denk W. Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells. Nature. 2002;418:845–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kihm AJ, Kong Y, Hong W, Russell JE, Rouda S, Adachi K, et al. An abundant erythroid protein that stabilizes free alpha-haemoglobin. Nature. 2002;417:758–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Morris SA. Food and Package Engineering. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Tymieniecka A-T, editor. Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nenycz-Thiel M, Romaniuk J. Buying of Private Labels Across Categories: How Far Is too far? In: Martínez-López FJ, Gázquez-Abad JC, Sethuraman R, editors. Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing: Second International Conference, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 35–42.

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 Autism.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Massive Chunk of Glacier Breaks Off Into Ocean. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Aviation Security: Efforts to Measure Effectiveness and Address Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Nov. Report No.: GAO-04-232T.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Turkel CC. Female leaders’ 360-degree self -perception accuracy for leadership competencies and skills [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2008.

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

1. Cooper M. Singing With, Not Through, the Nose. New York Times. 2017 Apr 30;C1.

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 Autism
Abbreviation	Mol. Autism
ISSN (online)	2040-2392
Scope	Developmental Biology Molecular Biology Psychiatry and Mental health Developmental Neuroscience