How to format your references using the Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Moses M. Being human: engineering: worldwide ebb. Nature 2009;457:660–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jucker M, Walker LC. Neurodegeneration: Amyloid-β pathology induced in humans. Nature 2015;525:193–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jönsson TJ, Johnson LC, Lowther WT. Structure of the sulphiredoxin-peroxiredoxin complex reveals an essential repair embrace. Nature 2008;451:98–101.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lin J-F, Struzhkin VV, Jacobsen SD, Hu MY, Chow P, Kung J, et al. Spin transition of iron in magnesiowüstite in the Earth’s lower mantle. Nature 2005;436:377–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lombard M. SolidWorks® Administration Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Rocha A, Correia AM, Costanzo S, Reis LP, editors. New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 1. vol. 353. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Schanz D, Schanz S. Tax Facts. In: Schanz S, editor. Business Taxation and Financial Decisions, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 137–58.

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 - Nucleic Acids.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. This Boy Was Arrested For Bringing A Clock To Class - And Now He’s Been Invited To The White House. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-rally-behind-teen-arrested-bomb-clock/ (accessed October 30, 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. Programs for Land-Grant Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sitterding MC. Situation awareness and the selection of interruption handling strategies during the medication administration process: A qualitative study. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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]

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times 2017:C24.

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 Therapy - Nucleic Acids
Abbreviation	Mol. Ther. Nucleic Acids
ISSN (print)	2162-2531
Scope	Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery