How to format your references using the Molecular Genetics and Metabolism citation style

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

[1]

C. Macilwain, Challengers in the field, Nature 441 (2006) 149.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.S. Khakh, R.A. North, P2X receptors as cell-surface ATP sensors in health and disease, Nature 442 (2006) 527–532.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Kotera, M. Tasaka, T. Shikanai, A pentatricopeptide repeat protein is essential for RNA editing in chloroplasts, Nature 433 (2005) 326–330.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z.F. Pursell, I. Isoz, E.-B. Lundström, E. Johansson, T.A. Kunkel, Yeast DNA polymerase epsilon participates in leading-strand DNA replication, Science 317 (2007) 127–130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.W. O’Gorman, Adaptive Tests of Significance Using Permutations of Residuals with R and SAS®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

D.L. Hawksworth, A.T. Bull, eds., Forest Diversity and Management, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Thevenot, J. Chen, M. Finnilä, M. Nieminen, P. Lehenkari, S. Saarakkala, M. Pietikäinen, Local Binary Patterns to Evaluate Trabecular Bone Structure from Micro-CT Data: Application to Studies of Human Osteoarthritis, in: L. Agapito, M.M. Bronstein, C. Rother (Eds.), Computer Vision - ECCV 2014 Workshops: Zurich, Switzerland, September 6-7 and 12, 2014, Proceedings, Part II, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 63–79.

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 Genetics and Metabolism.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Republicans Set To Sell Off 3.3 Million Acres Of Public Land, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/republicans-set-sell-33-million-acres-public-land/ (accessed October 30, 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, Federal Research and Development: Contributions to and Results of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Moble, Fundamental understanding of the cycloidal-rotor concept for micro air vehicle applications, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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]

J.C. McKINLEY Jr, 21 Years After Businessman’s Murder, His Wife and Her Brother Are Arrested, New York Times (2017) A18.

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 Genetics and Metabolism
Abbreviation	Mol. Genet. Metab.
ISSN (print)	1096-7192
Scope	Biochemistry Endocrinology Genetics Molecular Biology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism