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

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Ball, P. Triumph of the Medieval Mind. Nature 2008, 452 (7189), 816–818.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Jensen, E. L. N.; Akeson, R. Misaligned Protoplanetary Disks in a Young Binary Star System. Nature 2014, 511 (7511), 567–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Cardinale, B. J.; Palmer, M. A.; Collins, S. L. Species Diversity Enhances Ecosystem Functioning through Interspecific Facilitation. Nature 2002, 415 (6870), 426–429.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Nazirzadeh, M. A.; Atar, F. B.; Turgut, B. B.; Okyay, A. K. Random Sized Plasmonic Nanoantennas on Silicon for Low-Cost Broad-Band near-Infrared Photodetection. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7103.

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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Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. Positive Displacement Pumps; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

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Computing and Combinatorics: 11th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2005 Kunming, China, August 16–19, 2005 Proceedings; Wang, L., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 3595.

A chapter in an edited book

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van der Horst, M. J.; Simms, C. K.; van Maasdam, R.; Leerdam, P. J. C. Occupant Lower Leg Injury Assessment in Landmine Detonations under a Vehicle. In IUTAM Symposium on Impact Biomechanics: From Fundamental Insights to Applications; Gilchrist, M. D., Ed.; Gladwell, G. M. L., Series Ed.; Solid Mechanics and Its Applications; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005; pp 41–49.

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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Luntz, S. Why Do Bluebirds Have A Better Home Turf Defence?. IFLScience.

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. DOD’s High-Risk Areas: Efforts to Improve Supply Chain Can Be Enhanced by Linkage to Outcomes, Progress in Transforming Business Operations, and Reexamination of Logistics Governance and Strategy; GAO-07-1064T; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007.

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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Kent, L. Justification-Suppression of Gender and Race Bias in Hiring: The Impact of Accountability. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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. Crack Cocaine Limbo. New York Times. January 6, 2014, p A19.

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