How to format your references using the Molecular Medicine Reports citation style

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

Tyndall G: Chemistry. Vibrational excitation can control tropospheric chemistry. Science 337: 1046–1047, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Call J and Carpenter M: Behavior. Monkeys like mimics. Science 325: 824–825, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang MC, O’Rourke EJ and Ruvkun G: Fat metabolism links germline stem cells and longevity in C. elegans. Science 322: 957–960, 2008.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Revankar CM, Cimino DF, Sklar LA, Arterburn JB and Prossnitz ER: A transmembrane intracellular estrogen receptor mediates rapid cell signaling. Science 307: 1625–1630, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ohshima H: Biophysical Chemistry of Biointerfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Zhang Z, Wu L, Xu W and Du D-Z: Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: 8th International Conference, COCOA 2014, Wailea, Maui, HI, USA, December 19-21, 2014, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Kobayashi NI: Time-Course Analysis of Radiocesium Uptake and Translocation in Rice by Radioisotope Imaging. In: Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. Nakanishi TM and Tanoi K (eds.) Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp37–48, 2013.

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 Medicine Reports.

Blog post

Andrew D: Why Artificial Intelligence Could Be Key To Future-Proofing The Grid. IFLScience, 2017.

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: Rail Safety: Improved Human Capital Planning Could Address Emerging Safety Oversight Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Birtler ER: Group therapy and knowledge of neuroplastic principles: The impact of health literacy on client locus of control in a therapy setting., 2014.

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

Qiu L: On When They Met, and Those Vacancies. New York Times: A16, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Medicine Reports
Abbreviation	Mol. Med. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1791-2997
ISSN (online)	1791-3004
Scope	Biochemistry Cancer Research Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Oncology