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]

Sontheimer, H., 2015. Brain cancer: Tumour cells on neighbourhood watch. Nature 528(7580): 49–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brimioulle, R., Bach, T., 2013. Enantioselective Lewis acid catalysis of intramolecular enone [2+2] photocycloaddition reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342(6160): 840–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sharp, P.M., Rayner, J.C., Hahn, B.H., 2013. Evolution. Great apes and zoonoses. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340(6130): 284–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lou, Z., Minter-Dykhouse, K., Wu, X., Chen, J., 2003. MDC1 is coupled to activated CHK2 in mammalian DNA damage response pathways. Nature 421(6926): 957–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Langlois, P., 2013. Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

[1]

Astiz, M.F., Akiba, M., 2016. The Global and the Local: Diverse Perspectives in Comparative Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Li, Y., Yang, D., Liu, F., Cao, Y., Rehtanz, C., 2016. Oscillation Model Identification Based on Nonlinear Hybrid Method (NHM). In: Yang, D., Liu, F., Cao, Y., Rehtanz, C., editors. Interconnected Power Systems: Wide-Area Dynamic Monitoring and Control Applications, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer p. 59–74.

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]

Davis, J., 2015. Crows Rival Most Mammals with Their Cognitive Ability. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crows-rival-many-mammals-their-cognitive-feats/. [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., 2015. General Aviation: Observations Related to Liability Insurance Requirements and Coverage for Aircraft Owners. 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]

MacKinder, M., 2010. Max the Knife, Salesman. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

[1]

Hollander, S., 1999. Letting Nothing Stop the Streak. New York Times: F3.

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