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

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

S.H. White, Biophysical dissection of membrane proteins, Nature. 459 (2009) 344–346.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Nordborg, D. Weigel, Next-generation genetics in plants, Nature. 456 (2008) 720–723.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.J. Willis, L. Gillson, T.M. Brncic, Ecology. How “virgin” is virgin rainforest?, Science. 304 (2004) 402–403.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.-S. Park, S.-J. Ko, J.-S. Park, J.Y. Kim, H.-K. Song, Redox-active charge carriers of conducting polymers as a tuner of conductivity and its potential window, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Otto, Chemometrics, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

A.I. Fisenko, Black-body Radiative, Thermodynamic, and Chromatic Functions: Tables in Finite Spectral Ranges, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Wachinger, M. Yigitsoy, N. Navab, Manifold Learning for Image-Based Breathing Gating with Application to 4D Ultrasound, in: T. Jiang, N. Navab, J.P.W. Pluim, M.A. Viergever (Eds.), Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010: 13th International Conference, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 26–33.

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 Reports.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Check Out This Remote Control SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Nail Its Landing, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-this-remote-control-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-nail-its-landing/ (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, Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 5, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Klein, Mississippian Space and Place: A Geographical Study of Archaeological Site Data in the American Bottom, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

B. Protess, J. Silver-Greenberg, J. Drucker, Regulators Review German Bank At the Center of Trump’s Finances, New York Times. (2017) 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 Genetics and Metabolism Reports
Abbreviation	Mol. Genet. Metab. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2214-4269
Scope	Endocrinology Genetics Molecular Biology