How to format your references using the Medicines citation style

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

Zahnle, K. Planetary Science. Play It Again, SAM. Science 2015, 347, 370–371.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lovett, B.W.; Benjamin, S.C. Comment on “Multipartite Entanglement among Single Spins in Diamond.” Science 2009, 323, 1169; author reply 1169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida, N.; Katamine, S.; Manuelidis, L. Reciprocal Interference between Specific CJD and Scrapie Agents in Neural Cell Cultures. Science 2005, 310, 493–496.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fuller, D.Q.; Qin, L.; Zheng, Y.; Zhao, Z.; Chen, X.; Hosoya, L.A.; Sun, G.-P. The Domestication Process and Domestication Rate in Rice: Spikelet Bases from the Lower Yangtze. Science 2009, 323, 1607–1610.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mishra, A.R. Cellular Technologies for Emerging Markets; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2010; ISBN 9780470666234.

An edited book

Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology: Critical Reflections; Demir, H., Ed.; Philosophy of Engineering and Technology; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2012; Vol. 8; ISBN 9789400742918.

A chapter in an edited book

Recio-García, J.A.; Díaz-Agudo, B.; González-Calero, P.A. The COLIBRI Platform: Tools, Features and Working Examples. In Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications-2; Montani, S., Jain, L.C., Eds.; Studies in Computational Intelligence; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp. 55–85 ISBN 9783642387357.

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 Medicines.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. How We Can Use The Moon To Get To Mars Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/best-way-mars-might-be-moon/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Radioactive Sources: Opportunities Exist for Federal Agencies to Strengthen Transportation Security; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2017;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hilton, L.C. Case Study on Organic Farming as a Sustainable Solution for African-American Farmers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2015.

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

Pilon, M. For Men, Sport’s Stigma Dampens Appeal. New York Times 2012, SP7.

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	Medicines
Abbreviation	Medicines (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2305-6320
Scope