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]

Swift, J. The Point of It All. Science, 2014, 346, 882.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Livneh, U.; Zador, A. Sensory Systems: Sound Processing Takes Motor Control. Nature, 2014, 513, 180–181.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Popovych, O.V.; Yanchuk, S.; Tass, P.A. Self-Organized Noise Resistance of Oscillatory Neural Networks with Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity. Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, 2926.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Bayne, E.H.; Portoso, M.; Kagansky, A.; Kos-Braun, I.C.; Urano, T.; Ekwall, K.; Alves, F.; Rappsilber, J.; Allshire, R.C. Splicing Factors Facilitate RNAi-Directed Silencing in Fission Yeast. Science, 2008, 322, 602–606.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Savaux, V.; Louët, Y. MMSE-Based Algorithm for Joint Signal Detection, Channel and Noise Variance Estimation for OFDM Systems; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Developments in Language Theory: 10th International Conference, DLT 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 26-29, 2006. Proceedings; Ibarra, O.H.; Dang, Z., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 4036.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jiménez-Cruz, E.; Arroyo-Maya, I.J.; Hernández-Arana, A.; Cornejo-Mazón, M.; Hernández-Sánchez, H. Protein-Based Nanoparticles. In: Food Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; Hernández-Sánchez, H.; Gutiérrez-López, G.F., Eds.; Food Engineering Series; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 69–79.

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]

Andrew, E. The Best Planet Duo Of 2015 - Venus And Jupiter. https://www.iflscience.com/space/best-planet-duo-2015-venus-and-jupiter/ (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. School Improvement Grants: Early Implementation Under Way, but Reforms Affected by Short Time Frames; GAO-11-741; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ma, Y. Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as a Vector to Deliver Virus-Like Particles of Human Norovirus: A New Live Vectored Vaccine for Human Norovirus. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2013.

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]

Reinhart, M.K. Kathryn Bertine and George Varhola Jr. New York Times, 2010, ST14.

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