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

Whiten, A (2014). Animal behaviour: Incipient tradition in wild chimpanzees. Nature 514: 178–179.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dynek, JN and Smith, S (2004). Resolution of sister telomere association is required for progression through mitosis. Science 304: 97–100.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, Z, Owen, AB and Altman, RB (2004). Genetics. Genomic research and human subject privacy. Science 305: 183.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang, J, Yu, J, Fang, Y and Chi, N (2014). High speed all optical Nyquist signal generation and full-band coherent detection. Sci. Rep. 4: 6156.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Godula-Jopek, A, Jehle, W and Wellnitz, J (2012). Hydrogen Storage Technologies, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

(2012). Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 4: Brain Tumors (Part 2). In: Hayat, MA (ed.) 4, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XXVI, 386 ppp.

A chapter in an edited book

Marinescu, DG, Nicolae, V, Popescu, CL, Calin, L and Mierloiu, N (2016). DUSTER ZERO—Electric Vehicle Research 4WD. In: Andreescu, C and Clenci, A (eds.). Proceedings of the European Automotive Congress EAEC-ESFA 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham: pp 37–49.

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

Luntz, S (2014). Antarctic Ice Melt Could Be Worse Than We Realized. IFLScienceat <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctic-ice-melt-could-be-worse-we-realized/>.

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 (1999). Surface Transportation: Moving into the 21st Century, 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

Rholdon, CM (2012). Analyzing Leadership Practices of Enrollment Management at Fletcher Technical Community College.

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

Koblin, J (2017). ‘Central Park Jogger’ Series on Netflix. New York Times: C3.

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