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. Dolgin E. Deprivation: a wake-up call. Nature. 2013;497:S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ban Y, Chen X. Counter-diabatic driving for fast spin control in a two-electron double quantum dot. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6258.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. De Pontieu B, Erdélyi R, James SP. Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows. Nature. 2004;430:536–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Brunner D, Gerardot BD, Dalgarno PA, Wüst G, Karrai K, Stoltz NG, et al. A coherent single-hole spin in a semiconductor. Science. 2009;325:70–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rezg N, Dellagi S, Khatab A. Joint Optimization of Maintenance and Production Policies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Nelson KE, editor. Encyclopedia of Metagenomics: Genes, Genomes and Metagenomes: Basics, Methods, Databases and Tools. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Attarian HP, Undevia NS. Epileptiform Abnormalities. In: Undevia NS, editor. Atlas of Electroencephalography in Sleep Medicine. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012. p. 47–67.

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. O`Callaghan J. This Battery That Lasts 10 Years Could Revolutionize The Future Of Renewable Energy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-battery-that-lasts-10-years-could-revolutionize-the-future-of-renewable-energy/

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. Federal Student Loan Repayment Program: OPM Could Build on Its Efforts to Help Agencies Administer the Program and Measure Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Jul. Report No.: GAO-05-762.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Koner KM. The development and validation of an instrument to measure wind ensemble error detection skills among instrumental music educators [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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. Kelly R. Desire Under the Waves. New York Times. 1993 Aug 1;714.

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