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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lu X. The rewards of roughing it. Science 2015;350(6258):350.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rivera LB, Bergers G. CANCER. Tumor angiogenesis, from foe to friend. Science 2015;349(6249):694–695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nazir S, Amin B, Schwingenschlögl U. Suppression of the two-dimensional electron gas in LaGaO3/SrTiO3 by cation intermixing. Sci Rep 2013;33409.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mavárez J, Salazar CA, Bermingham E, Salcedo C, Jiggins CD, Linares M. Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies. Nature 2006;441(7095):868–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carrega P. Geographical Information and Climatology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2010.

An edited book

Massaglia S, Bodo G, Mignone A, Rossi P, Eds. Jets From Young Stars III: Numerical MHD and Instabilities. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. VIII, 178 p. 49 illus., 9 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Griffin P, Cagasan L, Care E, Vista A, Nava F. Formative Assessment Policy and Its Enactment in the Philippines. In: Laveault D, Allal L, Eds. Assessment for Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Implementation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p 75–92.

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

Andrew E. There’s An Elephant In The Room. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/theres-elephant-room/ (2014, 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. Additional Costs to Government: Reflagging Kuwaiti Ships and Protecting Them in the Persian Gulf. NSIAD-88-9FSWashington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; October 8, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eskridge RD. Municipal government: Does institutional structural reform make a difference in local government? Doctoral DissertationMississippi State 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

Davis JH. A Complex Relationship Has an Abrupt Ending. New York Times, May 10, 2017, A20.

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