How to format your references using the Medicine in Drug Discovery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medicine in Drug Discovery. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Adam D. British chemists warned of impending stagnation. Nature 2003;421:100.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

LaCour MJ, Green DP. Political science. When contact changes minds: an experiment on transmission of support for gay equality. Science 2014;346:1366–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tomonaga M, Uwano Y, Saito T. How dolphins see the world: a comparison with chimpanzees and humans. Sci Rep 2014;4:3717.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Caudron M, Bunt G, Bastiaens P, Karsenti E. Spatial coordination of spindle assembly by chromosome-mediated signaling gradients. Science 2005;309:1373–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Davis JH. Statistics for Compensation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Nonami K, Kartidjo M, Yoon K-J, Budiyono A, editors. Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles: Intelligent Unmanned Systems. vol. 65. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wisløff U, Haram PM, Kemi OJ. Genetic Vs. Acquired Fitness: Cardiomyocyte Adaptations. In: Stocchi V, Feo PD, Hood DA, editors. Role of Physical Exercise in Preventing Disease and Improving the Quality of Life, Milano: Springer; 2007, p. 61–81.

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 Medicine in Drug Discovery.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Entire Human Genome Can Now Be Sequenced For Just $1,000. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/entire-human-genome-can-now-be-read-1000/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Implementation of Modernization Projects in the Field. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kuqi K. A matrix-Based Method for Optimizing the User Interface Design of Electronic Medical Record Systems. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2013.

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

[1]

Feeney K. Animal-Free and Sermon-Free. New York Times 2011:NJ10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Medicine in Drug Discovery
ISSN (print)	2590-0986
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