How to format your references using the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

T. Sandholm, Computer science. Solving imperfect-information games, Science 347 (2015) 122–123.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.F. Kasting, J.L. Siefert, Life and the evolution of Earth’s atmosphere, Science 296 (2002) 1066–1068.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Schmidt, Q.-X. Jiang, R. MacKinnon, Phospholipids and the origin of cationic gating charges in voltage sensors, Nature 444 (2006) 775–779.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Isayama, D. Alexeev, C.L. Makino, I. Washington, K. Nakanishi, N.J. Turro, An accessory chromophore in red vision, Nature 443 (2006) 649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Bachmann, A. Steinle, V. Hahn, Bauen mit Betonfertigteilen im Hochbau, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J. Baxter, Speaking as Women Leaders: Meetings in Middle Eastern and Western Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Samanta, Proteomics in Assisted Reproduction, in: L. Samanta, R.P. Bertolla, D. Durairajanayagam, P. Intasqui (Eds.), Proteomics in Human Reproduction: Biomarkers for Millennials, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 65–69.

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 European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, DNA Results Suggest Kennewick Man Was Native American, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/preliminary-results-suggest-kennewick-man-was-native-american/ (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, Production and Quality of Education Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.E. Runyan, A Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying Likely Locations of Gas and Gas Hydrate Accumulation, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

J. Wagner, Harvey Picks Up a Win, With Plenty of Support, New York Times (2017) D6.

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	European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Med. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0223-5234
Scope	Organic Chemistry General Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology