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

Crothers DM. Biophysics. Fine tuning gene regulation. Science. 2013;339(6121):766-767.

A journal article with 2 authors

Semple CAM, Taylor MS. Molecular biology. The structure of change. Science. 2009;323(5912):347-348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turner WR, Oppenheimer M, Wilcove DS. A force to fight global warming. Nature. 2009;462(7271):278-279.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chin C, Bartenstein M, Altmeyer A, et al. Observation of the pairing gap in a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Science. 2004;305(5687):1128-1130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackford R, Schüklenk U. 50 Great Myths about Atheism. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Khalaf K. Data Transmission at Millimeter Waves: Exploiting the 60 GHz Band on Silicon. Vol 346. (Vidojkovic V, Wambacq P, Long JR, eds.). Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kribich RK. Refractometric Photonic Chips for Biosensing. In: Fritzsche W, Popp J, eds. Optical Nano- and Microsystems for Bioanalytics. Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors. Springer; 2012:155-180.

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

Taub B. Dispersant May Have Actually Hindered Oil-Degrading Microbes During BP Spill Clean-Up. IFLScience. November 10, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oil-dispersant-may-have-hindered-oil-degrading-microbes-during-bp-spill-clean/

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. Comments on Department of Education Use of Subsequent-Year Appropriations. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watkins JJ. Victor Echo Tango (VET) Support Services Inc. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Leland J. Ordinary People. New York Times. January 27, 2017:MB8.

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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