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

Sekercioglu CH. Ecology. Functional extinctions of bird pollinators cause plant declines. Science 2011;331(6020):1019–1020.

A journal article with 2 authors

Irion U, St Johnston D. bicoid RNA localization requires specific binding of an endosomal sorting complex. Nature 2007;445(7127):554–558.

A journal article with 3 authors

Majumdar S, Singh A, Rio DC. The human THAP9 gene encodes an active P-element DNA transposase. Science 2013;339(6118):446–448.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Da Costa Dias B, Jovanovic K, Gonsalves D, Moodley K, Reusch U, Knackmuss S, Penny C, Weinberg MS, Little M, Weiss SFT. Anti-LRP/LR specific antibody IgG1-iS18 and knock-down of LRP/LR by shRNAs rescue cells from Aβ42 induced cytotoxicity. Sci Rep 2013;32702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gerardi MH. Settleability Problems and Loss of Solids in the Activated Sludge Process. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

Vasilakos AV, Parashar M, Karnouskos S, Pedrycz W, Eds. Autonomic Communication. First. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. XVIII, 374 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Gosling P, Noordam B. How to Think Like a Scientist. In: Noordam LD, Ed. Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p 27–34.

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

Carpineti A. Astronomers Witness Cosmic Fender Bender In The Asteroid Belt. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-impact-snapped-astronomers/ (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. Vulnerability of the Computer Society. 100059Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; November 2, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Niedringhaus B. Best Practice in Early Reading Intervention: Implementing a Reading Intervention Program to Reach Below Level Readers. Doctoral DissertationLindenwood University; 2012.

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

Novick SM. North Fork Grows Meat to Go With the Potatoes. New York Times, May 3, 2015, LI9.

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