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 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

Redfield S: Astronomy. Gathering interstellar gas. Science 336: 1243–1244, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen RM and Kanamori H: The potential for earthquake early warning in southern California. Science 300: 786–789, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Häkkinen S, Rhines PB and Worthen DL: Atmospheric blocking and Atlantic multidecadal ocean variability. Science 334: 655–659, 2011.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Asfaw B, Gilbert WH, Beyene Y, et al.: Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature 416: 317–320, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam MR, Islam JS, Zatzman GM, Mughal MAH and Rahman MS: The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

Eijk RM van, Huget M-P and Dignum F: Agent Communication: International Workshop on Agent Communication, AC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Adamson SO, Kharlampidi DD and Dementiev AI: Application of the Uniformly Charged Sphere Stabilization for Calculating the Lowest 1 S Resonances of H −. In: Advances in Quantum Methods and Applications in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology. Hotokka M, Brändas EJ, Maruani J and Delgado-Barrio G (eds.) Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp101–118, 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

Luntz S: Adventurous Beetles Confirm A New Form Of Evolution. 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: Aviation Rulemaking: Incomplete Implementation Impaired FAA’s Reform Efforts. 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

Enriquez M: Music therapy to hospice patients of Visiting Nurse Association of Inland Counties: A grant proposal., 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

Rothenberg B: Women’s Tennis Examines The Serve. New York Times: D1, 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