How to format your references using the Medicinal Chemistry Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medicinal Chemistry Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Cully M (2014) Public health: The politics of antibiotics. Nature 509:S16-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Aaronson DS, Horvath CM (2002) A road map for those who don’t know JAK-STAT. Science 296:1653–1655

A journal article with 3 authors

Clayton JD, Kyriacou CP, Reppert SM (2001) Keeping time with the human genome. Nature 409:829–831

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blackburn TM, Cassey P, Duncan RP, et al (2004) Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands. Science 305:1955–1958

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodman GB (2014) Why Cultural Studies? John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Lindsay SJ (ed) (2016) Light Metals 2011. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Yingchoncharoen T (2015) Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease. In: Desai M, Jellis C, Yingchoncharoen T (eds) An Atlas of Mitral Valve Imaging. Springer, London, pp 69–87

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 Medicinal Chemistry Research.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) This Is What The Underside Of An Iceberg Looks Like. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1984) National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s First-Year Implementation of the Federal Manager’s Financial Integrity Act. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monosky KA (2010) Perceived effectiveness and utility of various EMS credentials. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Nuila R (2017) Medical Misfits. New York Times SR1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cully 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Aaronson and Horvath 2002; Cully 2014).

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

Two authors: (Aaronson and Horvath 2002)
Three or more authors: (Blackburn et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Medicinal Chemistry Research
Abbreviation	Med. Chem. Res.
ISSN (print)	1054-2523
ISSN (online)	1554-8120
Scope	Organic Chemistry General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics