How to format your references using the Molecular Neurobiology citation style

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

Mutter J (2010) Disasters widen the rich-poor gap. Nature 466:1042

A journal article with 2 authors

Jewitt DC, Luu J (2004) Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar. Nature 432:731–733

A journal article with 3 authors

Levine DI, Toffel MW, Johnson MS (2012) Randomized government safety inspections reduce worker injuries with no detectable job loss. Science 336:907–911

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Salge JR, Dreyer BJ, Dauenhauer PJ, Schmidt LD (2006) Renewable hydrogen from nonvolatile fuels by reactive flash volatilization. Science 314:801–804

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad A (2005) Wireless and Mobile Data Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rosette JJMCH de la, Gill IS (2005) Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery in Malignancies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Poggi I, Vincze L (2009) Gesture, Gaze and Persuasive Strategies in Political Discourse. In: Kipp M, Martin J-C, Paggio P, Heylen D (eds) Multimodal Corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–92

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 Neurobiology.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Should we be Afraid of Asteroids? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-day/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Department of the Interior: Year 2000 Computing Crisis Presents Risk of Disruption to Key Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anderson MS (2017) Integrating Emergency Medical Services Into the Patient-Centered Medical Home. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Vecsey G (2010) At Home, In Any House. New York Times B13

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 Neurobiology
Abbreviation	Mol. Neurobiol.
ISSN (print)	0893-7648
ISSN (online)	1559-1182
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience