How to format your references using the Molecular Vision citation style

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

Rutishauser U. Gerald Edelman (1929-2014). Nature. 2014;510(7506):474.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wood BJ, Halliday AN. Cooling of the Earth and core formation after the giant impact. Nature. 2005;437(7063):1345-1348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell RN, Kilian TM, Evans DAD. Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time. Nature. 2012;482(7384):208-211.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Marchewka A, Cooper D, Lenser C, et al. Determination of the electrostatic potential distribution in Pt/Fe:SrTiO₃/Nb:SrTiO₃ thin-film structures by electron holography. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wright JR, Cooper JE. Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Beck C, ed. Clusters in Nuclei: Volume 1. Vol 818. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Mills J, Parry G, Purchase V. Towards Understanding the Value of the Client’s Aspirations and Fears in Complex, Long-term Service Contracts. In: Ng I, Parry G, Wild P, McFarlane D, Tasker P, eds. Complex Engineering Service Systems: Concepts and Research. Decision Engineering. Springer; 2011:87-103.

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 Vision.

Blog post

Andrew E. Young Stars Are Destroying Their Mother Nebula. IFLScience.

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. Asian Aeronautics: Technology Acquisition Drives Industry Development. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mowery K. Beneath the Attack Surface. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego; 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

Sisario B. After 15 Years, New York Is Back as Grammy Host. New York Times. May 9, 2017:B2.

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 Vision
ISSN (online)	1090-0535
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