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]

Russo E. Capital collaboration Washington DC. Nature 2005;433:664–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Emery NJ, Clayton NS. The mentality of crows: convergent evolution of intelligence in corvids and apes. Science 2004;306:1903–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Prieto MA, Brunetti G, Mack K-H. Particle accelerators in the hot spots of radio galaxy 3C 445, imaged with the VLT. Science 2002;298:193–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ponton F, Lebarbenchon C, Lefèvre T, Biron DG, Duneau D, Hughes DP, et al. Parasitology: parasite survives predation on its host. Nature 2006;440:756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rigo M. Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Strohschen GIE, editor. Handbook of Blended Shore Education: Adult Program Development and Delivery. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Markina I. Geodesics in Geometry with Constraints and Applications. In: Bahns D, Bauer W, Witt I, editors. Quantization, PDEs, and Geometry: The Interplay of Analysis and Mathematical Physics, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 153–314.

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]

Andrew E. What’s The Mass Of A Supermassive Black Hole? IFLScience 2015.

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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Estimated Costs, Planned Uses of Emergency Funding, and Future Implications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Briseno AR. Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

SOPHIA PECK ROSS.RICHARD F. BLOUGH.HUGH ARCHBALD.ALEXANDER ROYDEN.RAPHAEL.SPENCER B. WITTY.CARL R. KLEIN, Tilis LB, JOSEPH A. CELESTE.JONATHAN ESTOFF.GEORGES SCHREIBER.THOMAS J. BARNUM.ALLAN C. INMAN. Letters; NOT CITY GUIDES TO THE PEOPLE GOP TROUBLE GRACE AND CHARM HOWL WITTY, TOO A BAS “ERPIVORI” OLD HAT FOREIGN SERVICE HERITAGE. New York Times 1950:The New York Times Magazine151.

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

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