How to format your references using the Molecular Therapy citation style

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

Gravitz, L (2012). Food science: taste bud hackers. Nature 486: S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carson, MJ and Lo, D (2001). Immunology. The push-me pull-you of T cell activation. Science 293: 618–619.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sasaki, T, Yamamoto, Y and Koashi, M (2014). Practical quantum key distribution protocol without monitoring signal disturbance. Nature 509: 475–478.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Donley, EA, Claussen, NR, Cornish, SL, Roberts, JL, Cornell, EA and Wieman, CE (2001). Dynamics of collapsing and exploding Bose-Einstein condensates. Nature 412: 295–299.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Takezawa, K (2005). Introduction to Nonparametric Regression: Takezawa/Introduction, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kyritsi-Yiallourou, ST (2009). Handbook of Applied Analysis. In: Papageorgiou, NS (ed.) 19, Springer US, Boston, MA, XXIII, 793 ppp.

A chapter in an edited book

Feinäugle, CA (2010). The UN Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee: Emerging Principles of International Institutional Law for the Protection of Individuals? In: Bogdandy, A von, Wolfrum, R, Bernstorff, J von, Dann, P and Goldmann, M (eds.). The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions: Advancing International Institutional Law, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: pp 101–131.

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 Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, D (2017). How Can We Predict The Hottest Year On Record When Weather Forecasts Are So Uncertain? IFLScienceat <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-can-we-predict-the-hottest-year-on-record-when-weather-forecasts-are-so-uncertain/>.

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 (2012). Air Passenger Screening: Transportation Security Administration Could Improve Complaint Processes, 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

Chappel, AM (2012). A Longitudinal Investigation of Stress, Complete Mental Health, and Social Support among High School Students.

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

Kenigsberg, B (2016). Film Series in NYC This Week. New York Times: C29.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Therapy
Abbreviation	Mol. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1525-0016
ISSN (online)	1525-0024
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology