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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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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Rowley, J. D. Genetics. A Story of Swapped Ends. Science 2013, 340 (6139), 1412–1413.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Roos, D.; Winterbourn, C. C. Immunology. Lethal Weapons. Science 2002, 296 (5568), 669–671.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Buszczak, M.; Paterno, S.; Spradling, A. C. Drosophila Stem Cells Share a Common Requirement for the Histone H2B Ubiquitin Protease Scrawny. Science 2009, 323 (5911), 248–251.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Freyd, J. J.; Putnam, F. W.; Lyon, T. D.; Becker-Blease, K. A.; Cheit, R. E.; Siegel, N. B.; Pezdek, K. Psychology. The Science of Child Sexual Abuse. Science 2005, 308 (5721), 501.

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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Abracen, J.; Looman, J. Treatment of High-Risk Sexual Offenders; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

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Superconductivity in Complex Systems: -/-; Müller, K. A., Bussmann-Holder, A., Eds.; Structure and Bonding; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 114.

A chapter in an edited book

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Antoine, R.; Dugourd, P. UV-Visible Activation of Biomolecular Ions. In Laser Photodissociation and Spectroscopy of Mass-separated Biomolecular Ions; Polfer, N. C., Dugourd, P., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Chemistry; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2013; pp 93–116.

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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Andrews, R. NASA Shares Beautiful Image Of Volcanic Eruption Aftermath As Seen From Space. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nasa-shares-beautiful-image-of-volcanic-eruption-aftermath-as-seen-from-space/ (accessed 2018-10-30)

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. Department of Education Grant Award; HRD-93-8R; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992.

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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Tanag, H. B. Building Bridges of Hope after Loss: A Self-Directed Workbook for Foster Parents. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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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Baker, A. L.; Mueller, B. A Shooting, the Hospital and Then, Months Later, a Homicide. New York Times. May 7, 2016, p A1.

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