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. Jasanoff S. Technologies of humility. Nature. 2007;450:33.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wang K, Mittleman DM. Metal wires for terahertz wave guiding. Nature. 2004;432:376–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Storch D, Keil P, Jetz W. Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature. 2012;488:78–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Schulz O, Diebold SS, Chen M, Näslund TI, Nolte MA, Alexopoulou L, et al. Toll-like receptor 3 promotes cross-priming to virus-infected cells. Nature. 2005;433:887–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Holzer SM. Statische Beurteilung Historischer Tragwerke. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

1. Paolantonio P. Imaging of Small Bowel, Colon and Rectum. Dromain C, editor. Milano: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Muller-Parker G, D’Elia CF, Cook CB. Interactions Between Corals and Their Symbiotic Algae. In: Birkeland C, editor. Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 99–116.

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. Andrew E. They Might Sound Gross, But Intestinal Worms Can Actually Be Good For You. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Commercial Activities in Schools: Use of Student Data is Limited and Additional Dissemination of Guidance Could Help Districts Develop Policies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Aug. Report No.: GAO-04-810.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Perfitt T. Megaphone: Fault tolerant, scalable, and trustworthy peer-to-peer microblogging [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Oestreich JR. A Man on a Mission, and Then Another. New York Times. 2017 Jan 20;AR8.

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