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

Reis e Sousa C. Immunology. Eating in to avoid infection. Science 2007;315(5817):1376–1377.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoffmann AA, Sgrò CM. Climate change and evolutionary adaptation. Nature 2011;470(7335):479–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baxt LA, Garza-Mayers AC, Goldberg MB. Bacterial subversion of host innate immune pathways. Science 2013;340(6133):697–701.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Okajima T, Xu A, Lei L, Irvine KD. Chaperone activity of protein O-fucosyltransferase 1 promotes notch receptor folding. Science 2005;307(5715):1599–1603.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheng VS, Tong JC. Building Sustainability in East Asia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Jevtić M. Taylor Coefficients and Coefficient Multipliers of Hardy and Bergman-Type Spaces. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XVI, 323 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Rohan JF, Thompson D. Frontiers of Cu Electrodeposition and Electroless Plating for On-chip Interconnects. In: Kondo K, Akolkar RN, Barkey DP, Yokoi M, Eds. Copper Electrodeposition for Nanofabrication of Electronics Devices. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p 99–113.

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. NASA Probes Reveal Current In Earth’s Radiation Belts Is Not As Expected. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-probes-show-space-ring-current-not-expected/ (2016, 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. Postsecondary Education: Student Outcomes Vary at For-Profit, Nonprofit, and Public Schools. GAO-12-143Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; December 7, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burke K. Big Five personality traits and astrology: The relationship between the Moon variable and the NEO PI-R. Doctoral DissertationPacifica Graduate Institute; 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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Prison For Bombings Investigator. New York Times, May 21, 2004, A12.

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