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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Kleypas J. Oceans. Invisible barriers to dispersal. Science. 2015;348:1086–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fyke J, Eby M. Comment on “Climate sensitivity estimated from temperature reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum.” Science. 2012;337:1294; author reply 1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Casanova-Sáez R, Candela H, Micol JL. Combined haploinsufficiency and purifying selection drive retention of RPL36a paralogs in Arabidopsis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4122.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Soloviev AV, Lukas R, Donelan MA, Haus BK, Ginis I. The air-sea interface and surface stress under tropical cyclones. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Savaux V, Louët Y. MMSE-Based Algorithm for Joint Signal Detection, Channel and Noise Variance Estimation for OFDM Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Kim H-J, Katzenbeisser S, Ho ATS, editors. Digital Watermarking: 7th International Workshop, IWDW 2008, Busan, Korea, November 10-12, 2008. Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pequeno V, Galhardas H, Vidal VMP. Using Complex Correspondences for Integrating Relational Data Sources. In: Cordeiro J, Hammoudi S, Maciaszek L, Camp O, Filipe J, editors. Enterprise Information Systems: 16th International Conference, ICEIS 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, April 27-30, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 57–74.

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 Neurodegeneration.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Healthcare Funding Cuts Most Likely Cause Of High Mortality Rates In UK, Study Suggests [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/healthcare-funding-cuts-most-likely-cause-of-high-mortality-rates-in-uk-study-suggests/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. DOD Schools: Funding and Operating Alternatives for Education of Dependents. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Dec. Report No.: HRD-87-16.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Blair GT. The effects of a league guided sportsmanship program on the behaviors of youth sports athletes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Baker L. A Canadian Condo Boom. New York Times. 2007 Oct 21;1111.

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