How to format your references using the Molecular Metabolism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Metabolism (MOLMET). 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]

Oullier, O., 2012. Clear up this fuzzy thinking on brain scans. Nature 483(7387): 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rappuoli, R., Aderem, A., 2011. A 2020 vision for vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Nature 473(7348): 463–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Brown, T., Sibbett, W., Wright, E.M., 2001. Laser physics. Getting to grips with light. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293(5533): 1265–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xu, W., Kim, T.-H., Zhai, D., Er, J.C., Zhang, L., Kale, A.A., et al., 2013. Make caffeine visible: a fluorescent caffeine “traffic light” detector. Scientific Reports 3: 2255.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Knowles, R., 2008. 150 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

[1]

Derosas, R., van Poppel, F., 2006. Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jacobs, A., Duysburgh, P., Bleumers, L., Ongenae, F., Ackaert, A., Verstichel, S., 2014. The Innovation Binder Approach: A Guide Towards a Social-Technical Balanced Pervasive Health System. In: Holzinger, A., Ziefle, M., Röcker, C., editors. Pervasive Health: State-of-the-art and Beyond, London: Springer p. 69–99.

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 Metabolism.

Blog post

[1]

Fang, J., 2015. Burial Pods Could Turn Cemeteries Into Forests. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/one-day-green-cemeteries-will-use-corpses-help-trees-grow/. [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., 1978. Guidelines for Survey of the Pricing of Negotiated Noncompetitive DOD Prime Contracts With McDonnell Douglas and Raytheon and NASA Prime Contracts With General Electric. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bogenreif, C., 2017. Rachmaninoff’s Sonata For Cello and Piano: A Staple in the Cello and Piano Repertoire. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

Wagner, J., 2016. Dodgers’ Late-Inning Gamble Backfires in Cubs’ Timely Grand Slam. New York Times: SP2.

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 Metabolism
Abbreviation	Mol. Metab.
ISSN (print)	2212-8778
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology