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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Boothroyd, A. I. Astronomy. Heavy Elements in Stars. Science 2006, 314 (5806), 1690–1691.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Cooper, V. S.; Lenski, R. E. The Population Genetics of Ecological Specialization in Evolving Escherichia Coli Populations. Nature 2000, 407 (6805), 736–739.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Sigman, D. M.; Jaccard, S. L.; Haug, G. H. Polar Ocean Stratification in a Cold Climate. Nature 2004, 428 (6978), 59–63.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Ding, L.; He, S.; Miao, S.; Jorgensen, M. R.; Leubner, S.; Yan, C.; Hickey, S. G.; Eychmüller, A.; Xu, J.; Schmidt, O. G. Ultrasmall SnO₂ Nanocrystals: Hot-Bubbling Synthesis, Encapsulation in Carbon Layers and Applications in High Capacity Li-Ion Storage. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4647.

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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Raheja, D. G.; Allocco, M. Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

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Oral Cancer: Diagnosis and Therapy; Kirita, T., Omura, K., Eds.; Springer Japan: Tokyo, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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Rüdenauer, F.; Koops, H. W. P.; Hobler, G.; Palmetshofer, L.; Bluhm, H. Ion Beam Devices for Material Processing and Analysis. In Vacuum Electronics: Components and Devices; Eichmeier, J. A., Thumm, M. K., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; pp 231–263.

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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Andrew, E. Explainer: What Is 4D Printing?. 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. School Dropouts: Survey of Local Programs; HRD-87-108; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987.

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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Voma, S. K. Design of Power Management Circuit for Energy Harvesting Applications. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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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Corkery, M.; Cowley, S. For Better or Worse, Debt Reaches New Peak. New York Times. May 17, 2017, p B1.

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