How to format your references using the NeuroMolecular Medicine citation style

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

Hammerer, K. (2013). Physics. Quantum mechanics tackles mechanics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6159), 702–703.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolfe, M. S., & Kopan, R. (2004). Intramembrane proteolysis: theme and variations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5687), 1119–1123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berton, O., Hahn, C.-G., & Thase, M. E. (2012). Are we getting closer to valid translational models for major depression? Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 75–79.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Alard, O., Griffin, W. L., Lorand, J. P., Jackson, S. E., & O’Reilly, S. Y. (2000). Non-chondritic distribution of the highly siderophile elements in mantle sulphides. Nature, 407(6806), 891–894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jakubith, M. (1998). Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Baranzini, A., Ramirez, J., Schaerer, C., & Thalmann, P. (Eds.). (2008). Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets: Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Law, N., Yuen, A., & Fox, R. (2011). Pedagogical Practices, Technology Use, and Teacher Competence. In A. Yuen & R. Fox (Eds.), Educational Innovations Beyond Technology: Nurturing Leadership and Establishing Learning Organizations (pp. 89–111). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 NeuroMolecular Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 26). Awesome Teenage Innovations That Deserve Showcasing. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/awesome-teenage-innovations-deserve-showcasing/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (1972). Administration of the Head Start Program by the Mountain Community Action Program, Inc (No. B-164031(1)). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters, W. C. (2017). An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Critical Technology Developments and Technology Maturity (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Barron, J. (2017, January 29). In the Age of Reality TV, a Best-Selling Author Calls In Real-Life Heroes. New York Times, p. A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hammerer 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hammerer 2013; Wolfe and Kopan 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Wolfe and Kopan 2004)
Three or more authors: (Alard et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	NeuroMolecular Medicine
Abbreviation	Neuromolecular Med.
ISSN (print)	1535-1084
ISSN (online)	1559-1174
Scope	Molecular Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Neurology