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

Zerhouni E (2003) Embryonic stem cells. Stem cell programs. Science 300:911–912

A journal article with 2 authors

Roth MS, Deheyn DD (2013) Effects of cold stress and heat stress on coral fluorescence in reef-building corals. Sci Rep 3:1421

A journal article with 3 authors

Cho MK, McGee G, Magnus D (2006) Research conduct. Lessons of the stem cell scandal. Science 311:614–615

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rand DG, Dreber A, Ellingsen T, et al (2009) Positive interactions promote public cooperation. Science 325:1272–1275

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulaev IS, Vagabov VM, Kulakovskaya TV (2005) The Biochemistry of Inorganic Polyphosphates. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ijioui R, Emmerich H, Ceyp M (2008) Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Event Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Semeraro G, Basile P, de Gemmis M, Lops P (2007) Discovering User Profiles from Semantically Indexed Scientific Papers. In: Berendt B, Hotho A, Mladenic D, Semeraro G (eds) From Web to Social Web: Discovering and Deploying User and Content Profiles: Workshop on Web Mining, WebMine 2006, Berlin, Germany, September 18, 2006. Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 61–81

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

Andrew E (2015) Contender For Most Massive Dinosaur May Not Have Been So Hefty After All. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/contender-most-massive-dinosaur-may-not-have-been-so-hefty-after-all/. 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 (2011) Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Needs Enhanced Oversight and Performance Measures. 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

Cruz W (2009) Extended services post reunification to enhance parent-child attachments: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Sharapova Given Wild Card Into U.S. Open, Her First Major Since 2016. New York Times B9

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