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]

Wijnen, H. Circadian Rhythms. A Circadian Loop AsSIRTs Itself. Science, 2009, 324, 598–599.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Drake, M.J.; Jakosky, B.M. Narrow Horizons in Astrobiology. Nature, 2002, 415, 733–734.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Omabegho, T.; Sha, R.; Seeman, N.C. A Bipedal DNA Brownian Motor with Coordinated Legs. Science, 2009, 324, 67–71.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kipp, L.; Skibowski, M.; Johnson, R.L.; Berndt, R.; Adelung, R.; Harm, S.; Seemann, R. Sharper Images by Focusing Soft X-Rays with Photon Sieves. Nature, 2001, 414, 184–188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wind, Y.J.; Hays, C.F. Beyond Advertising; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Ravindranath, N.H. Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook for Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Carbon Mitigation and Roundwood Production Projects; Ostwald, M., Ed.; Advances in Global Change Research; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; Vol. 29.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Herbener, J. Fed Policy Errors of the Great Depression. In: The Fed at One Hundred: A Critical View on the Federal Reserve System; Howden, D.; Salerno, J.T., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 43–54.

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]

Fang, J. Giraffes Hum At Night. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giraffes-hum-night/ (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. Export Control: Army Guidance on Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Compliance with Export Control Laws and Regulations; GAO-02-529R; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Decena, M. What Variables Affect Peritoneal Dialysis Growth? Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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]

Greenhouse, L. Justices Stay Execution, A Signal to Lower Courts. New York Times, 2007, A1.

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