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

Smith R: Why a macroeconomic perspective is critical to the prevention of noncommunicable disease. Science 337: 1501–1503, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Putten MHPM and Levinson A: Detecting energy emissions from a rotating black hole. Science 295: 1874–1877, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee I-H, Shin S and Choi T-L: Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers. Science 347: 1310–1311, 2015.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen B, Wang X, Gao B, et al.: Highly compact (4F2) and well behaved nano-pillar transistor controlled resistive switching cell for neuromorphic system application. Sci Rep 4: 6863, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa PJ: Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

Perbal A, Takigawa M and Perbal B: CCN Proteins in Health and Disease: An Overview of the Fifth International Workshop on the CCN Family of Genes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu SW and Vleugels RA: Livedo Reticularis. In: Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease. Matucci-Cerinic M, Furst D and Fiorentino D (eds.) Springer, New York, NY, pp29–36, 2014.

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 E: Rosetta Scientists Optimistic Philae Could Wake Up Early Next Year. IFLScience, 2014.

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: Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Giles DM: A study of remotely sensed aerosol properties from ground-based sun and sky scanning radiometers., 2012.

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

Crow K: Using Tall Yellow Globes To Find Elusive Yellow Cabs. New York Times: 148, 2000.

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