How to format your references using the Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 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

Pace NR (2006) Time for a change. Nature 441:289

A journal article with 2 authors

Diffenbaugh NS, Field CB (2013) Changes in ecologically critical terrestrial climate conditions. Science 341:486–492

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghosh S, Sood AK, Kumar N (2003) Carbon nanotube flow sensors. Science 299:1042–1044

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fiorelli LE, Ezcurra MD, Hechenleitner EM, et al (2013) The oldest known communal latrines provide evidence of gregarism in Triassic megaherbivores. Sci Rep 3:3348

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Etten WC (2006) Introduction to Random Signals and Noise. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Proulx T (ed) (2011) Linking Models and Experiments, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2011. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Georgiev T (2006) Covariant Derivatives and Vision. In: Leonardis A, Bischof H, Pinz A (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2006: 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, Graz, Austria, May 7-13, 2006, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–69

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 Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Watch Live As SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft Launches Toward ISS. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-spacex-s-dragon-spacecraft-launches-toward-iss/. 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 (1994) Air Force C-17 Embedded Computers. 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

Tucker MS (2010) Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of in vitro selected artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Vecsey G (2011) In Showalter, Orioles Have a Guy Who Never Misses a Trick. New York Times B14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pace 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Pace 2006; Diffenbaugh and Field 2013).

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

Two authors: (Diffenbaugh and Field 2013)
Three or more authors: (Fiorelli et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
ISSN (online)	2191-2858
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