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

Bertola F (2002) Astronomy. Putting galaxies on the scale. Science 295:283–284

A journal article with 2 authors

Villier L, Korn D (2004) Morphological disparity of ammonoids and the mark of Permian mass extinctions. Science 306:264–266

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang Y, Dong Y, Chawla NV (2014) Predicting node degree centrality with the node prominence profile. Sci Rep 4:7236

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schneider S, Walther C, Bister S, et al (2013) Plutonium release from Fukushima Daiichi fosters the need for more detailed investigations. Sci Rep 3:2988

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolf V (2012) The Years. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Boske C, Osanloo A (2015) Students, Teachers, and Leaders Addressing Bullying in Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Annunziata CM, Roque DM, Azad N, Kohn EC (2008) Application of Serum and Tissue Proteomics to Understand and Detect Solid Tumors. In: Daoud SS (ed) Cancer Proteomics: From Bench to Bedside. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 101–120

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

Hale T (2017) Cats Might Not Be Total Jerks After All, According To Study. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-might-not-be-total-jerks-after-all-according-to-study/. 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 (2016) Federally Leased Vehicles: Agencies Should Strengthen Assessment Processes to Reduce Underutilized Vehicles. 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

Henderson R (2010) The effect of Interactive Metronome training on sports confidence and putting performance. 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

Turkewitz J (2014) Language Barrier Continues to Thwart Victims of Crimes. New York Times A14

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

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