How to format your references using the Molbank citation style

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

Shelly, D.R. Migrating Tremors Illuminate Complex Deformation beneath the Seismogenic San Andreas Fault. Nature 2010, 463, 648–652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scully, M.O.; Svidzinsky, A.A. Physics. The Lamb Shift--Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Science 2010, 328, 1239–1241.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaczmarczyk, A.; Vorholt, J.A.; Francez-Charlot, A. Synthetic Vanillate-Regulated Promoter for Graded Gene Expression in Sphingomonas. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6453.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Merkel, S.; Kubo, A.; Miyagi, L.; Speziale, S.; Duffy, T.S.; Mao, H.-K.; Wenk, H.-R. Plastic Deformation of MgGeO3 Post-Perovskite at Lower Mantle Pressures. Science 2006, 311, 644–646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandra, S. Energy, Entropy and Engines; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781119013167.

An edited book

Programmatic Advertising: The Successful Transformation to Automated, Data-Driven Marketing in Real-Time; Busch, O., Ed.; Management for Professionals; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319250212.

A chapter in an edited book

Seffah, A.; Metzker, E. Usability Engineering Integration as an Adoption Problem. In Adoption-centric Usability Engineering: Systematic Deployment, Assessment and Improvement of Usability Methods in Software Engineering; Seffah, A., Metzker, E., Eds.; Springer: London, 2009; pp. 47–57 ISBN 9781848000186.

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 Molbank.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Scientists Discover A Process That Regulates Forgetting (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 Improving the Acquisition of Computer Systems; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1972;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Trichon, M.C. Self-Help Conferences for People Who Stutter: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 2010.

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

Kanter, J.; Povoledo, E. E.U. Leaders Project Unity, Despite Concerns of Failure. New York Times 2017, A6.

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	Molbank
Abbreviation	Molbank
ISSN (online)	1422-8599
Scope	Biochemistry Organic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry