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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Mills E (2005) Insurance in a climate of change. Science 309:1040–1044
A journal article with 2 authors
Domazet-Lošo T, Tautz D (2010) A phylogenetically based transcriptome age index mirrors ontogenetic divergence patterns. Nature 468:815–818
A journal article with 3 authors
Weeks AR, Marec F, Breeuwer JA (2001) A mite species that consists entirely of haploid females. Science 292:2479–2482
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Higgins BL, Berry DW, Bartlett SD, et al (2007) Entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation. Nature 450:393–396

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Kricheldorf HR (2012) Menschen und ihre Materialien. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany
An edited book
Černá I, Gyimóthy T, Hromkovič J, et al (eds) (2011) SOFSEM 2011: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 37th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Nový Smokovec, Slovakia, January 22-28, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
Lorenz H, Döllner J (2010) High-Quality Non-planar Projections Using Real-Time Piecewise Perspective Projections. In: Ranchordas A, Pereira JM, Araújo HJ, Tavares JMRS (eds) Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications: International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, February 5-8, 2009. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–58

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 (2017) Investigation Gives Glimpse Into The Scale Of The Shark Fin Trade. In: IFLScience. 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 (2000) Welfare Reform: Improving State Automated Systems Requires Coordinated Federal Effort. 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
Huff HK (2013) Thumb Twiddle Glossolalia: The Soumage. 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
Williams G, Kakissis J, Ferren A, et al (2011) 15 Cities, Wrapped in a Bow, for Under $100. New York Times TR3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mills 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mills 2005; Domazet-Lošo and Tautz 2010).

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

  • Two authors: (Domazet-Lošo and Tautz 2010)
  • Three or more authors: (Higgins et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleMedicinal Chemistry Research
AbbreviationMed. Chem. Res.
ISSN (print)1054-2523
ISSN (online)1554-8120
ScopeOrganic Chemistry
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

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