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]

Wickware P. United States gives priority to skills shortage. Nature 2000;404:686–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zhang X-Q, Xu D. Calculating forest biomass changes in China. Science 2002;296:1359; discussion 1359.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tasker SZ, Standley EA, Jamison TF. Recent advances in homogeneous nickel catalysis. Nature 2014;509:299–309.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Takeoka Y, Yoshioka S, Teshima M, Takano A, Harun-Ur-Rashid M, Seki T. Structurally coloured secondary particles composed of black and white colloidal particles. Sci Rep 2013;3:2371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schiesser WE. Spline Collocation Methods for Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Iosifidis P. Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

De la Prieta F, De Paz Santana JF, Gil AB, Boureux M. Retrieving Learning Resources over the Cloud. In: Uden L, Corchado Rodríguez ES, De Paz Santana JF, De la Prieta F, editors. Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud (LTEC’12), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 47–56.

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. Scientists Accidentally Produce An Entirely New Type Of Glass. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-glass-surprised-scientists/ (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. Managing Host Country Contracting Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

He H. Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Flows in a Pulse Detonation Engine by the Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

Pilon M. Differing Views on Value of High School Tests. New York Times 2013:SP6.

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
Scope