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

Guenin LM (2001) Essays on science and society. Morals and primordials. Science 292:1659–1660

A journal article with 2 authors

Hussain NK, Sheng M (2005) Neuroscience. Making synapses: a balancing act. Science 307:1207–1208

A journal article with 3 authors

Sta Ana JL, Frankel MS, Berger KM (2009) Biosecurity. Educating scientists about dual use. Science 326:1193

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gaietta G, Deerinck TJ, Adams SR, et al (2002) Multicolor and electron microscopic imaging of connexin trafficking. Science 296:503–507

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sellars C (2011) Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Di Benedetto M-G, Bader F (eds) (2014) Cognitive Communication and Cooperative HetNet Coexistence: Selected Advances on Spectrum Sensing, Learning, and Security Approaches. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao Y, Zhou W, Zhang Y, et al (2005) Clock Synchronization State Graphs Based on Clock Precision Difference. In: Hobbs M, Goscinski AM, Zhou W (eds) Distributed and Parallel Computing: 6th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP, Melbourne, Australia, October 2-3, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 34–39

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Take First X-Ray Images Of Living Bacteria. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-take-first-x-ray-images-living-bacteria/. 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 (2002) Answers to Independence Standard Questions (Superseded by GAO-12-331G) GAO-02-870G, July 2002. 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

Montano M (2010) Supporting juvenile offenders reentering the community: A grant proposal project. 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

LaFRANIERE S, Lehren AW (2015) The Disproportionate Risk of Driving While Black. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guenin 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Guenin 2001; Hussain and Sheng 2005).

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

Two authors: (Hussain and Sheng 2005)
Three or more authors: (Gaietta 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