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

Sutherland, W. J. (2013). Review by quality not quantity for better policy. Nature, 503(7475), 167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burlini, L., & Di Toro, G. (2008). Geophysics. Volcanic symphony in the lab. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 207–208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, S., Zhou, Z., & Greenberg, M. E. (2008). Medicine. Activating a repressor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5880), 1172–1173.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Uhlén, P., Laestadius, A., Jahnukainen, T., Söderblom, T., Bäckhed, F., Celsi, G., et al. (2000). Alpha-haemolysin of uropathogenic E. coli induces Ca2+ oscillations in renal epithelial cells. Nature, 405(6787), 694–697.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garrison, D. R., & Vaughan, N. D. (2007). Blended Learning in Higher Education. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Stempsey, W. E. (Ed.). (2005). Elisha Bartlett’s Philosophy of Medicine (Vol. 83). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ursani, A. A., Kpalma, K., Ronsin, J., Memon, A. A., & Chowdhry, B. S. (2009). Improved Texture Description with Features Based on Fourier Transform. In D. M. A. Hussain, A. Q. K. Rajput, B. S. Chowdhry, & Q. Gee (Eds.), Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems: International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2008 Jamshoro, Pakistan, April 11-12, 2008 Revised Selected Papers (pp. 19–28). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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, November 9). How We Got To Now: Why The US And Europe Went Different Ways On GMOs. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1979). NAVSTAR Global Positioning System--A Program With Many Uncertainties (No. PSAD-79-16). 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

McConnell, M. E. (2017). A Dual Diagnosis of Hearing Loss and an Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Illustrative Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2005, March 4). World Briefing | Europe: Azerbaijan: Opposition Urges Protests Over Killing. New York Times, p. A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sutherland 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Burlini and Di Toro 2008; Sutherland 2013).

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

Two authors: (Burlini and Di Toro 2008)
Three or more authors: (Uhlén 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