How to format your references using the Neuromuscular Disorders citation style

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

[1]

Offerman SE. Materials science. Microstructures in 4D. Science 2004;305:190–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pomerantz RT, O’Donnell M. The replisome uses mRNA as a primer after colliding with RNA polymerase. Nature 2008;456:762–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Raff MC, Whitmore AV, Finn JT. Axonal self-destruction and neurodegeneration. Science 2002;296:868–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kim J-M, Jang H-J, Choi SY, Park S-A, Kim IS, Yang YR, et al. DJ-1 contributes to adipogenesis and obesity-induced inflammation. Sci Rep 2014;4:4805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Abid MM. Spacecraft Sensors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Peeters M, Sabri N, Shahin W, editors. Financial Integration: A Focus on the Mediterranean Region. vol. 36. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Byun JS (jason), Kwak Y. The Scanner Data Shows Size Elasticity at Package Food Category? In: Ślęzak D, Kim T-H, Ma J, Fang W-C, Sandnes FE, Kang B-H, et al., editors. U- and E-Service, Science and Technology: International Conference, UNESST 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 19–24.

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 Neuromuscular Disorders.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Gene-Editing Therapy Saves Lives Of Two Baby Girls With Leukemia. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/geneediting-therapy-saves-lives-baby-girls-leukemia/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. National Airspace System: Current Efforts and Proposed Changes to Improve Performance of FAA’s Air Traffic Control System. Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Moretto L. Exploring the Nature of the Relationship Between Decision-Driven Scenarios and Decision Confidence in High-Velocity Environments. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2012.

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

[1]

Fiske IH. KEATS’S “LAMIA.”; Found on Shelley’s Drowned Body and Cast Into His Funeral Flames. New York Times 1906:REVIEW OF BOOKSBR61.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Neuromuscular Disorders
Abbreviation	Neuromuscul. Disord.
ISSN (print)	0960-8966
Scope	Genetics(clinical) Clinical Neurology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Neurology