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

Lawler A. ASTROBIOLOGY: Ames’s Proposal for Lab Triggers Battle at NASA. Science, 2000, 289:23a

A journal article with 2 authors

Grumbine RE, Pandit MK. Ecology. Threats from India’s Himalaya dams. Science, 2013, 339:36–7

A journal article with 3 authors

Rougier GW, Forasiepi AM, Martinelli AG. Comment on “Independent origins of middle ear bones in monotremes and therians” (II). Science, 2005, 309:1492; author reply 1492

A journal article with 36 or more authors

Krekelberg B, Lappe M, Whitney D, Cavanagh P, Eagleman DM, Sejnowski TJ. The position of moving objects. Science, 2000, 289:1107a

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schepers U. RNA Interference in Practice. Weinheim, FRG, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2004

An edited book

Bault J-P. The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain: Ultrasonographic Features. 1st ed. 2015. Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015

A chapter in an edited book

Sheikh MA, Erlich Y. Base-Calling for Bioinformaticians. Edited by Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N, Hackenberg M and Aransay AM. Bioinformatics for High Throughput Sequencing, New York, NY, Springer, 2012, pp. 67–83

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

O`Callaghan J. Solar Impulse 2 Prepares For Final Leg Of Its Journey Around The World On Solar Power. IFLScience, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-impulse-prepares-for-final-leg-of-journey-around-the-world-on-solar-power/. (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. 911 Services: Most States Used 911 Funds for Intended Purposes, but FCC Could Improve Its Reporting on States’ Use of Funds. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Toler RL. Structural Equation Modeling of Advertising Involvement, Consumer Attitude, and Engagement for Video Advertising in a Social Networking Site. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 2017

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

Dorman JL. From Small Plates, Inspiration Goes Beyond the Local Scene. New York Times, 2017:TR9

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