How to format your references using the Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

Dobson, J.E. Big Brother Has Evolved. Nature, 2009, 458, 968.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sive, H.; Sarma, S. Education: Online on-Ramps. Nature, 2013, 499, 277–278.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Glasauer, S.; Langley, S.; Beveridge, T.J. Intracellular Iron Minerals in a Dissimilatory Iron-Reducing Bacterium. Science, 2002, 295, 117–119.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Tomita, K.; Fukai, S.; Ishitani, R.; Ueda, T.; Takeuchi, N.; Vassylyev, D.G.; Nureki, O. Structural Basis for Template-Independent RNA Polymerization. Nature, 2004, 430, 700–704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Blanchet, G.; Charbit, M. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using MATLAB®; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Retolaza, J.L. Social Accounting for Sustainability: Monetizing the Social Value; San-José, L.; Ruíz-Roqueñi, M., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Business; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rico, F.; Wojocikiewicz, E.P.; Moy, V.T. Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of the Mechanical Properties of Living Cells. In: Applied Scanning Probe Methods IX: Characterization; Tomitori, M.; Bhushan, B.; Fuchs, H., Eds.; Nano Science and Technolgy; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; pp. 89–109.

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 Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti, A. Star Might Have Been Faking A Supernova Explosion (Accessed Oct 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Status of FCC Efforts To Allocate Costs Between Telephone Companies’ Regulated and Unregulated Activities; RCED-83-235; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Buckley, K.M. Diversity and Evolution of 185/333, an Immune -Related Gene Family from the Purple Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2008.

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

[1]

La Gorce, T. Fire Up the Pit: My Brisket Can Burn Yours. New York Times, 2012, NJ8.

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	Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
Abbreviation	Curr. Top. Med. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1568-0266
ISSN (online)	1873-5294
Scope	General Medicine Drug Discovery