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. Sudan M. Mathematics. Quick and dirty refereeing? Science. 2003;301:1191–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ikkala O, ten Brinke G. Functional materials based on self-assembly of polymeric supramolecules. Science. 2002;295:2407–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sato TK, Overduin M, Emr SD. Location, location, location: membrane targeting directed by PX domains. Science. 2001;294:1881–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Saal AE, Hauri EH, Langmuir CH, Perfit MR. Vapour undersaturation in primitive mid-ocean-ridge basalt and the volatile content of Earth’s upper mantle. Nature. 2002;419:451–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bonneau D, Fatu A, Souchet D. Internal Combustion Engine Bearings Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Burt S, Añorve DA, editors. Global Perspectives on US Democratization Efforts: From the Outside In. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wegner LH. Interplay of Water and Nutrient Transport: A Whole-Plant Perspective. In: Lüttge U, Beyschlag W, editors. Progress in Botany: Vol 76. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 109–41.

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. Carpineti A. Dark Energy Has Not Changed In Billions Of Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-energy-has-not-changed-billions-year/

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. Marine Transportation: Federal Financing and an Infrastructure Investment Framework. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Sep. Report No.: GAO-02-1090T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Green JT. The relationship between technology support and extent of technology integration into college-level foreign language curricula [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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. Brownmiller S. Hugh Hefner Was My Enemy. New York Times. 2017 Sep 29;SR3.

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

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