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]

Clayton J. The promise of T. cruzi genomics. Nature 2010;465:S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mangalam M, Karve SM. ANIMAL COGNITION. Comment on “Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans’ mental number line.” Science 2015;348:1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hauke P, Tagliacozzo L, Lewenstein M. Physics. Speeding up quantum field theories. Science 2012;336:1122–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Thaiss CA, Levy M, Grosheva I, Zheng D, Soffer E, Blacher E, et al. Hyperglycemia drives intestinal barrier dysfunction and risk for enteric infection. Science 2018;359:1376–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Frank WL, Whittle DK. Revalidating Process Hazard Analyses. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Cristofaro ED, Murdoch SJ, editors. Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 14th International Symposium, PETS 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 16-18, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 8555. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wehrmeister MA, Berkenbrock GR. Automatic Execution of Test Cases on UML Models of Embedded Systems. In: Schirner G, Götz M, Rettberg A, Zanella MC, Rammig FJ, editors. Embedded Systems: Design, Analysis and Verification: 4th IFIP TC 10 International Embedded Systems Symposium, IESS 2013, Paderborn, Germany, June 17-19, 2013. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 39–48.

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]

Taub B. 60-Year-Old Woman Wins Appeal To Become Pregnant With Dead Daughter’s Eggs. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/60yearold-woman-wins-appeal-to-give-birth-to-dead-daughters-eggs/ (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. Executive Office of the President: Analysis of Mandated Report on Key Information Technology Areas. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Patra P. Image scaling with three different interpolation techniques and their comparisons. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

JULIA C. MEAD; Linda Saslow contributed reporting for this article. A Grieving Family Questions a Police Policy. New York Times 2006:14LI7.

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