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

Apeloig Y (2011) Chemistry. The diamond within a silicon analog of cyclobutadiene. Science 331:1277–1278

A journal article with 2 authors

Temel Y, Jahanshahi A (2015) Neuroscience. Treating brain disorders with neuromodulation. Science 347:1418–1419

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop NA, Lu T, Yankner BA (2010) Neural mechanisms of ageing and cognitive decline. Nature 464:529–535

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Meibom KL, Blokesch M, Dolganov NA, et al (2005) Chitin induces natural competence in Vibrio cholerae. Science 310:1824–1827

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yener M, Dundar O (2016) Expert Android ® Studio. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

An edited book

Lee B-B, Bergan J, Rockson SG (eds) (2011) Lymphedema: A Concise Compendium of Theory and Practice. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Bloss CS, Bakken TE, Joyner AH, Schork NJ (2009) Leveraging High-Dimensional Neuroimaging Data in Genetic Studies of Neuropsychiatric Disease. In: Ritsner MS (ed) The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes: Neuropsychological Endophenotypes and Biomarkers. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 87–102

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

Davis J (2017) Human And Chimpanzee Split May Have Occurred In Europe, Not Africa. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/human-and-chimpanzee-split-may-have-occurred-in-europe-not-africa/. 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 (2007) Information Technology: Homeland Security Information Network Needs to Be Better Coordinated with Key State and Local Initiatives. 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

Baggio BG (2008) Integrating social software into blended -learning courses: A Delphi study of instructional -design processes. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Shpigel B (2016) Indians Channel Their Inner Cavaliers. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Apeloig 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Apeloig 2011; Temel and Jahanshahi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Temel and Jahanshahi 2015)
Three or more authors: (Meibom et al. 2005)

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