How to format your references using the Molecular Diversity citation style

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

Piperno DR (2001) Archaeology. On maize and the sunflower. Science 292:2260–2261

A journal article with 2 authors

Conway TM, John SG (2014) Quantification of dissolved iron sources to the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature 511:212–215

A journal article with 3 authors

Scott BA, Avidan MS, Crowder CM (2002) Regulation of hypoxic death in C. elegans by the insulin/IGF receptor homolog DAF-2. Science 296:2388–2391

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bauch D, Darling K, Simstich J, et al (2003) Palaeoceanographic implications of genetic variation in living North Atlantic Neogloboquadrina pachyderma. Nature 424:299–302

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacIsaac B, Langton R (2011) Gas Turbine Propulsion Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wintour EM, Owens JA (2006) Early Life Origins of Health and Disease. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Bruni R, Corradini A, Gadducci F, et al (2010) On GS-Monoidal Theories for Graphs with Nesting. In: Engels G, Lewerentz C, Schäfer W, et al (eds) Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–86

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 Molecular Diversity.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Creative Self-Destruction: The Climate Crisis And The Myth Of ‘Green’ Capitalism. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/creative-self-destruction-climate-crisis-and-myth-green-capitalism/. 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 (2003) Aviation Security: Progress Since September 11, 2001, and the Challenges Ahead. 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

Nye KM (2010) Crème de Pêche. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly D (1994) Face to Face With Bergman. New York Times 735

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	Molecular Diversity
Abbreviation	Mol. Divers.
ISSN (print)	1381-1991
ISSN (online)	1573-501X
Scope	Molecular Biology Catalysis Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Information Systems General Medicine Drug Discovery