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

Trenberth K. Climate. Uncertainty in hurricanes and global warming. Science. 2005;308(5729):1753-1754.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee WY, Sine SM. Principal pathway coupling agonist binding to channel gating in nicotinic receptors. Nature. 2005;438(7065):243-247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Medina JF, Nores WL, Mauk MD. Inhibition of climbing fibres is a signal for the extinction of conditioned eyelid responses. Nature. 2002;416(6878):330-333.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wakioka T, Sasaki A, Kato R, et al. Spred is a Sprouty-related suppressor of Ras signalling. Nature. 2001;412(6847):647-651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harrison A. The Life of D. H. Lawrence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Levine B, Yoshimori T, Deretic V, eds. Autophagy in Infection and Immunity. Vol 335. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Danis RP, Bingaman DP. Neovascularization in Models of Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion. In: Penn JS, ed. Retinal and Choroidal Angiogenesis. Springer Netherlands; 2008:103-117.

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. How Computers Broke Science – And What We Can Do To Fix It. IFLScience. Published November 9, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-computers-broke-science-and-what-we-can-do-fix-it/

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. Telecommunications: Issues Related to Competition and Subscriber Rates in the Cable Television Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Magda B. Increasing Efficacy of Emergency Departments through Systems Analysis of Enterprise Architecture: Mitigating the Impact of Technological Change. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 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

Vecsey G. Excuses, Excuses and Style Points for Alibis. New York Times. February 2, 2011:B12.

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
Scope

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