How to format your references using the The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (JMD). 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

Dalton R. Arizona institute names leader. Nature, 2003, 423:6

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiggins FM, Hurst GDD. Microbiology. Rapid insect evolution by symbiont transfer. Science, 2011, 332:185–6

A journal article with 3 authors

Shekhawat G, Tark S-H, Dravid VP. MOSFET-Embedded microcantilevers for measuring deflection in biomolecular sensors. Science, 2006, 311:1592–5

A journal article with 36 or more authors

Hara MR, Kovacs JJ, Whalen EJ, Rajagopal S, Strachan RT, Grant W, Towers AJ, Williams B, Lam CM, Xiao K, Shenoy SK, Gregory SG, Ahn S, Duckett DR, Lefkowitz RJ. A stress response pathway regulates DNA damage through β2-adrenoreceptors and β-arrestin-1. Nature, 2011, 477:349–53

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JC, Naeim F. Basic Structural Dynamics. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012

An edited book

Kall P. Stochastic Linear Programming: Models, Theory, and Computation. vol. 156. 2nd ed. Boston, MA, Springer US, 2011

A chapter in an edited book

Coscia P, Palmieri FAN, Castaldo F, Cavallo A. 3-D Hand Pose Estimation from Kinect’s Point Cloud Using Appearance Matching. Edited by Bassis S, Esposito A, Morabito FC and Pasero E. Advances in Neural Networks: Computational Intelligence for ICT, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 37–45

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 The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

Blog post

Fang J. Venezuela’s First Carnivorous Dinosaur. IFLScience, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/venezuela-s-first-carnivorous-dinosaur/. (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

Government Accountability Office. Business Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Better Balance Management Capacity with System Acquisition Workload. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen M. Therapeutic groups for adults with mental illness and their caregivers: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010

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

Greenhouse L. Guantánamo Legal Battle Is Resuming. New York Times, 2007:114

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	The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Diagn.
ISSN (print)	1525-1578
ISSN (online)	1943-7811
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine