How to format your references using the Medicines citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medicines. 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

Smaglik, P. The Secrets of Success. Nature 2004, 432, 253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bright, A.T.; Winzeler, E.A. Epidemiology: Resistance Mapping in Malaria. Nature 2013, 498, 446–447.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunningham, J.; Rau, A.; Burnett, K. From Pedigree Cats to Fluffy-Bunnies. Science 2005, 307, 872–875.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, G.-H.; Lee, H.-Y.; Li, B.; Kim, H.-R.; Chae, H.-J. Bax Inhibitor-1-Mediated Inhibition of Mitochondrial Ca2+ Intake Regulates Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Opening and Cell Death. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Birke, D. Social Networks and Their Economics; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2013; ISBN 9781118699638.

An edited book

Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs: Selected Papers from FDL 2005; Vachoux, A., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2006; ISBN 9781402049972.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheli, F.; Mapelli, F.; Viganò, R.; Tarsitano, D. Start. In Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2010: Smart Systems for Green Cars and Safe Mobility; Meyer, G., Valldorf, J., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 39–49 ISBN 9783642126475.

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 Medicines.

Blog post

Hale, T. Five Women Masturbated Inside An MRI Machine. This Is A Video Of Their Brains During Orgasm (accessed on 30 October 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 [Comments on Sequesterability of Railroad Supplemental Annuity Pension Fund]; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Norton, D.A. O’Connor’s Agent Casual Theory of Free Will: An Evaluation. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Poniewozik, J. On Trump and Clinton, Letting the Chips Fall Where They May. New York Times 2016, C1.

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	Medicines
Abbreviation	Medicines (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2305-6320
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