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

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

Grinnell F. Rethink our approach to assessing risk. Nature 2015;522(7556):257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Supek F, Lehner B. Differential DNA mismatch repair underlies mutation rate variation across the human genome. Nature 2015;521(7550):81–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Homer H, Gui L, Carroll J. A spindle assembly checkpoint protein functions in prophase I arrest and prometaphase progression. Science 2009;326(5955):991–994.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mueller A-K, Labaied M, Kappe SHI, Matuschewski K. Genetically modified Plasmodium parasites as a protective experimental malaria vaccine. Nature 2005;433(7022):164–167.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shafer DA. Hazardous Materials Characterization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Dincer I. Solar Based Hydrogen Production Systems. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. IX, 141 p. 72 illus., 27 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim WT, Kang SH, Joo EK. Performance Improvement of Turbo Code Based on the Extrinsic Information Transition Characteristics. In: Smart NP, Ed. Cryptography and Coding: 10th IMA International Conference, Cirencester, UK, December 19-21, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p 47–58.

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 Research Reviews.

Blog post

Fang J. Malaria-Spreading Mosquitoes Can Transmit a Flea-Borne Disease Too. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/malaria-spreading-mosquitoes-can-transmit-flea-borne-disease-too/ (2015, accessed October 30, 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. Aviation Infrastructure: Feasibility of Using Alternate Means to Satisfy Requirements of Alaska National Airspace System Interfacility Communications System (ANICS) Phase II. RCED-00-110RWashington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; September 6, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mitchell JE. Job satisfaction and burnout among foreign -trained nurses in Saudi Arabia: A mixed-method study. Doctoral DissertationUniversity of Phoenix; 2009.

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

Powell M. Defining Success. New York Times, July 7, 2017, SP1.

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	Medicinal Research Reviews
Abbreviation	Med. Res. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0198-6325
ISSN (online)	1098-1128
Scope	Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology