How to format your references using the Molecular Pharmaceutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Pharmaceutics. 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	Download the output style file
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

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Whipple, F. L. ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Of Comets and Meteors. Science 2000, 289 (5480), 728.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

von Storch, H.; Stehr, N. Climate Change in Perspective. Nature 2000, 405 (6787), 615.

A journal article with 3 authors

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McCauley, E.; Nelson, W. A.; Nisbet, R. M. Small-Amplitude Cycles Emerge from Stage-Structured Interactions in Daphnia-Algal Systems. Nature 2008, 455 (7217), 1240–1243.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Abdul Ajees, A.; Gunasekaran, K.; Volanakis, J. E.; Narayana, S. V. L.; Kotwal, G. J.; Murthy, H. M. K. The Structure of Complement C3b Provides Insights into Complement Activation and Regulation. Nature 2006, 444 (7116), 221–225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Wright, J. R.; Cooper, J. E. Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads; John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

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Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture V: 5th IFIP TC 5/SIG 5.1 Conference, CCTA 2011, Beijing, China, October 29-31, 2011, Proceedings, Part II; Li, D., Chen, Y., Eds.; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 369.

A chapter in an edited book

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Dickman, C. R. Fences or Ferals? Benefits and Costs of Conservation Fencing in Australia. In Fencing for Conservation: Restriction of Evolutionary Potential or a Riposte to Threatening Processes?; Somers, M. J., Hayward, M., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2012; pp 43–63.

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 Pharmaceutics.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. New Technology Allows Water Purification Using Sunlight. IFLScience.

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

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Government Accountability Office. Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Cost Increases Trigger Review and Place Program’s Direction on Hold; GAO-06-573T; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Valenzuela, B. D. Thirty-Year-Old Mulberry Field. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

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Walsh, M. W.; Corkery, M. Senate Panel Seeks More Details About Puerto Rico’s Debt and Long-Term Needs. New York Times. September 30, 2015, p B4.

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	Molecular Pharmaceutics
Abbreviation	Mol. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	1543-8384
ISSN (online)	1543-8392
Scope	Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science