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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Scalfani VF. Finally free. Science. 2014;346:1258.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hittinger CT, Carroll SB. Gene duplication and the adaptive evolution of a classic genetic switch. Nature. 2007;449:677–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Maisel SB, Höfler M, Müller S. A canonical stability-elasticity relationship verified for one million face-centred-cubic structures. Nature. 2012;491:740–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang Q, Tan G, Gu L, Yao Y, Jin C, Wang Y, et al. Direct observation of multiferroic vortex domains in YMnO3. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2741.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cayuela Valencia R. The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Han KJ, Choi B-Y, Song S, editors. High Performance Cloud Auditing and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bushek D, Allen DM. Motile Suspension-Feeders in Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems. In: Dame RF, Olenin S, editors. The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems Nida, Lithuania 4–9 October 2003. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 53–71.

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. Who Owns The Moon? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/who-owns-moon/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Billions Continue to Be Invested with Inadequate Management Oversight and Accountability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 May. Report No.: GAO-04-615.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Neilson DH. Structured interactions and collective outcomes essays on production and finance [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2009.

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. Brantley B. Land Mines in the Battlefields of Home and Office. New York Times. 2017 Mar 1;C2.

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