How to format your references using the Molecular Diversity citation style

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

Colombo P (2008) Materials science. In praise of pores. Science 322:381–383

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerardot BD, Ohberg P (2009) Physics. A strongly driven spin. Science 326:1489–1490

A journal article with 3 authors

Brisbin IL Jr, Austad S, Jacobson SK (2000) Canine detectives: the nose knows-or does it? Science 290:1093b

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hu X, Boccaletti S, Huang W, et al (2014) Exact solution for first-order synchronization transition in a generalized Kuramoto model. Sci Rep 4:7262

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reschetilowski W (2002) Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Paprotny I, Bergbreiter S (2014) Small-Scale Robotics. From Nano-to-Millimeter-Sized Robotic Systems and Applications: First International Workshop at ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6, 2013, Revised and Extended Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mavroudis C (2015) Coarctation of the Aorta. In: Mavroudis C, Backer CL (eds) Atlas of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. Springer, London, pp 73–82

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 Molecular Diversity.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Sloth Evolution Not So Slothful After All. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2008) Traffic Safety: NHTSA’s Improved Oversight Could Identify Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Safety in Some States. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moe R (2014) The evolution and impact of the massive open online course. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Koblin J (2017) At the Emmys, a Night of Politics and Trump. New York Times 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	Molecular Diversity
Abbreviation	Mol. Divers.
ISSN (print)	1381-1991
ISSN (online)	1573-501X
Scope	Molecular Biology Catalysis Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Information Systems General Medicine Drug Discovery