How to format your references using the Mediterranean Journal of Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mediterranean Journal of Chemistry (MJC). 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

V. Ramakrishnan, Molecular biology. The eukaryotic ribosome, Science, 2011, 331, 681–682.

A journal article with 2 authors

P. C. England, R. F. Katz, Global systematics of arc volcano position, Nature, 2010, 468, E6-7; discussion E7-8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Y. Lu, W. Wang, M. W. Kirschner, Specificity of the anaphase-promoting complex: a single-molecule study, Science, 2015, 348, 1248737.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Y. Tang, J. Shi, S. Li, L. Wang, Y. E. Cayre, Y. Chen, Microfluidic device with integrated microfilter of conical-shaped holes for high efficiency and high purity capture of circulating tumor cells, Sci Rep, 2014, 4, 6052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

S. R. Ahmad, M. Cartwright, Laser Ignition of Energetic Materials, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

M. Zhang, Android Application Security: A Semantics and Context-Aware Approach, Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

M. R. Habib, D. L. Morris, Cryotherapy, , In, Aigner KR, Stephens FO (eds). Induction Chemotherapy: Systemic and Locoregional, , Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016, pp, 45–51.

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 Mediterranean Journal of Chemistry.

Blog post

E. Andrew, How Languages Evolved, IFLScience. , 2015https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-indo-european-languages-may-have-evolved/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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, Federal Communications Commission: Extending Wireless Telecommunications Services to Tribal Lands, U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

J. Ichiyama, Early goal-directed therapy in adult septic patients, , 2014.

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

J. Anderson, Is This the Best Education Money Can Buy?, New York Times. , 2013, , MM46.

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	Mediterranean Journal of Chemistry
ISSN (online)	2028-3997
Scope