How to format your references using the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of 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	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 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)

Bendor, D. Eppendorf. Play It Again, Brain. Science 2013, 342 (6158), 574.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Seelig, J. D.; Jayaraman, V. Neural Dynamics for Landmark Orientation and Angular Path Integration. Nature 2015, 521 (7551), 186–191.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Eswaramoorthy, S. K.; Howe, J. M.; Muralidharan, G. In Situ Determination of the Nanoscale Chemistry and Behavior of Solid-Liquid Systems. Science 2007, 318 (5855), 1437–1440.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Harris, A. C.; Kamenetsky, V. S.; White, N. C.; van Achterbergh, E.; Ryan, C. G. Melt Inclusions in Veins: Linking Magmas and Porphyry Cu Deposits. Science 2003, 302 (5653), 2109–2111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Center for Chemical Process Safety. Inherently Safer Chemical Processes; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

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Reticulate Evolution: Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity; Gontier, N., Ed.; Interdisciplinary Evolution Research; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 3.

A chapter in an edited book

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Vande Wouwer, A.; Saucez, P.; Vilas, C. Finite Elements and Spectral Methods. In Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB: Scientific and Engineering Applications; Saucez, P., Vilas, C., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp 203–283.

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 Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Blog post

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Hamilton, K. Poaching Increases African Elephants Born Without Tusks. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/poaching-increases-african-elephants-born-without-tusks/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Laboratory Accreditation: Requirements Vary Throughout the Federal Government; RCED-89-102; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Crowley, C. J. A Critical Analysis of the CELF-4: The Responsible Clinician’s Guide to the CELF-4. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, 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

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Greenhouse, L.; Kirkpatrick, D. D. Justices Loosen Ad Restrictions In Campaign Law. New York Times. June 26, 2007, p A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Med. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0022-2623
ISSN (online)	1520-4804
Scope	Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery