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. Teichert S. Hollow rhodoliths increase Svalbard’s shelf biodiversity. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6972.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fehr E, Rockenbach B. Detrimental effects of sanctions on human altruism. Nature. 2003;422:137–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Taniyasu Y, Kasu M, Makimoto T. An aluminium nitride light-emitting diode with a wavelength of 210 nanometres. Nature. 2006;441:325–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. He Y, Jones CR, Fujiki N, Xu Y, Guo B, Holder JL Jr, et al. The transcriptional repressor DEC2 regulates sleep length in mammals. Science. 2009;325:866–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pevsner J. Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Yee JT. Technology Integration to Business: Focusing on RFID, Interoperability, and Sustainability for Manufacturing, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Oh S-C, editor. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hormazábal N, Cardoso HL, de la Rosa JL, Oliveira E. An Approach for Virtual Organisations’ Dissolution. In: Padget J, Artikis A, Vasconcelos W, Stathis K, Silva VT da, Matson E, et al., editors. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V: COIN 2009 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, COIN@IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, USA, July 2009, COIN@MALLOW 2009, Turin, Italy, September 2009 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 70–85.

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. Hale T. Could Brain Scans and AI Reveal The Mindset Of A Suspected Criminal? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Nanotechnology: Better Guidance Is Needed to Ensure Accurate Reporting of Federal Research Focused on Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Mar. Report No.: GAO-08-402.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Prietto M. No place like home: The problem and the promise of the home psychotherapy office [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2015.

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. Fernandez M. After Shooting, Scrutiny Turns to 2nd Officer. New York Times. 2015 Apr 18;A1.

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