How to format your references using the Medicinal Chemistry Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medicinal Chemistry Research. 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

Brody H (2011) Hepatitis C. Nature 474:S1

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao GF, Feng Y (2014) On the ground in Sierra Leone. Science 346:666

A journal article with 3 authors

Mathis D, Vence L, Benoist C (2001) beta-Cell death during progression to diabetes. Nature 414:792–798

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kao RR, Gravenor MB, Baylis M, et al (2002) The potential size and duration of an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in British sheep. Science 295:332–335

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willatzen M, Lew Yan Voon LC (2011) Separable Boundary-Value Problems in Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

McKeown R, Nolet V (eds) (2013) Schooling for Sustainable Development in Canada and the United States. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Liu Y, Yang Z (2011) Range-Free Network Localization. In: Yang Z (ed) Location, Localization, and Localizability: Location-awareness Technology for Wireless Networks. Springer, New York, NY, pp 55–74

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 Medicinal Chemistry Research.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) Students Create 3D-Printed Wheelchair For Disabled Kitten. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/students-create-3d-printed-wheelchair-disabled-kitten/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2003) Student Loan Programs: As Federal Costs of Loan Consolidation Rise, Other Options Should Be Examined. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bustos I (2017) Backpacking Through My Suburban Barrio: Eco-Latina Diaries. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Chira S (2017) Jobs Men Don’t Want. New York Times SR3

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Brody 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brody 2011; Gao and Feng 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Gao and Feng 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kao et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Medicinal Chemistry Research
Abbreviation	Med. Chem. Res.
ISSN (print)	1054-2523
ISSN (online)	1554-8120
Scope	Organic Chemistry General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics