How to format your references using the Molecular Breeding citation style

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

Gershon D (2000) Pushing the frontiers of interdisciplinary research: an idea whose time has come. Nature 404:313–315

A journal article with 2 authors

Strasser BJ, Dubochet J (2005) Obituary: Eduard Kellenberger (1920-2004). Nature 433:817

A journal article with 3 authors

Loubeyre P, Occelli F, LeToullec R (2002) Optical studies of solid hydrogen to 320 GPa and evidence for black hydrogen. Nature 416:613–617

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bergelson J, Kreitman M, Stahl EA, Tian D (2001) Evolutionary dynamics of plant R-genes. Science 292:2281–2285

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin E, Nel D, Ólafsson S (2014) Problems and Solutions in Mathematical Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Lee CT, Wood DP (eds) (2010) Bladder Cancer: Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Prodan E, Schulz-Baldes H (2016) K-Theory for Topological Solid State Systems. In: Schulz-Baldes H (ed) Bulk and Boundary Invariants for Complex Topological Insulators: From K-Theory to Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 85–111

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 Breeding.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Legal Marijuana Has Given Colorado A Massive Economic Boost. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/legal-marijuana-given-colorado-massive-economic-boost/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2011) Reimbursable Space Act Agreements: NASA Generally Adhering to Fair Reimbursement Controls, but Guidance on Waived Cost Justifications Needs Refinement. 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

Lieberman V (2012) One yard shy of empowerment: Cinematic portrayals of female athletes. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University

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

Kelly C (2014) ‘A Coarse Pleasure’ In Stories of Impostors. New York Times A25B

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2000; Strasser and Dubochet 2005).

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

Two authors: (Strasser and Dubochet 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bergelson et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Breeding
Abbreviation	Mol. Breed.
ISSN (print)	1380-3743
ISSN (online)	1572-9788
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Biotechnology Genetics Molecular Biology