How to format your references using the Molecular Neurodegeneration citation style

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

1. Sovacool BK. Energy. Deploying off-grid technology to eradicate energy poverty. Science. 2012;338:47–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jellinek AM, Manga M. The influence of a chemical boundary layer on the fixity, spacing and lifetime of mantle plumes. Nature. 2002;418:760–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lemieux C, Otis C, Turmel M. Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution. Nature. 2000;403:649–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Dai S, Friemann R, Glauser DA, Bourquin F, Manieri W, Schürmann P, et al. Structural snapshots along the reaction pathway of ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase. Nature. 2007;448:92–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lawless HT. Quantitative Sensory Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

1. Ilic D, editor. Stem Cell Banking. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Curto P, Mamede N, Baptista J. Assisting European Portuguese Teaching: Linguistic Features Extraction and Automatic Readability Classifier. In: Zvacek S, Restivo MT, Uhomoibhi J, Helfert M, editors. Computer Supported Education: 7th International Conference, CSEDU 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 81–96.

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 Neurodegeneration.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Unfeelability Cloak Prevents Sensing Object By Touch. IFLScience. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Management of Federally Financed Research by the University of Michigan--A Case Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970 Sep. Report No.: B-117219.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Penix-Tadsen P. Marketing marginality: Resistance and commodification in contemporary Latin American cultural production [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2009.

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. Hubbard B. Smiling as Syria Burns, Assad Remains Secure in Power and Impunity. New York Times. 2016 Sep 17;A10.

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 Neurodegeneration
Abbreviation	Mol. Neurodegener.
ISSN (online)	1750-1326
Scope	Molecular Biology Clinical Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience