How to format your references using the Molecular Pharmacology citation style

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

Kreeger K (2003) A winning proposal. Nature 426:102–103.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mounce RCP, and Wills MA (2011) Phylogenetic position of Diania challenged. Nature 476:E1; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keith DW, Parson E, and Morgan MG (2010) Research on global sun block needed now. Nature 463:426–427.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Brown S, Heinisch I, Ross E, Shaw K, Buckley CD, and Savill J (2002) Apoptosis disables CD31-mediated cell detachment from phagocytes promoting binding and engulfment. Nature 418:200–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keegan KD (2008) Biotechnology Valuation, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Mishra SK (ed) (2011) Topics in Nonconvex Optimization: Theory and Applications, Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Jun B, and Kim D (2007) Robust Real-Time Face Detection Using Face Certainty Map, in Advances in Biometrics: International Conference, ICB 2007, Seoul, Korea, August 27-29, 2007. Proceedings (Lee S-W, and Li SZ eds) pp 29–38, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) This Wind-Powered Ball Is The Godfather Of New Anti-Landmine Tech, IFLScience.

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 (2010) Telecommunications: The Proposed Performance Rights Act Would Result in Additional Costs for Broadcast Radio Stations and Additional Revenue for Record Companies, Musicians, and Performers, 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

Tahira A (2017) Synthesis of Bivalent Organothiophosphate Inhibitors and Their Inhibition of Butyrylcholinesterase: Studies towards a Potential Treatment of Cognitive Loss Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled B Y (2004) Arts, Briefly; Rachmaninoff Score Unsold.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kreeger, 2003; Mounce and Wills, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Mounce and Wills, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Brown et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Mol. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0026-895X
ISSN (online)	1521-0111
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pharmacology