How to format your references using the Molecular Pharmacology citation style

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

Risbey J (2015) Earth science: Free and forced climate variations. Nature 517:562–563.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hsiao JC, and Fong K (2004) Making big money from small technology. Nature 428:218–220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang G, Jiang X, and Wang E (2003) Tubular graphite cones. Science 300:472–474.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Daley AC, Budd GE, Caron J-B, Edgecombe GD, and Collins D (2009) The Burgess Shale anomalocaridid Hurdia and its significance for early euarthropod evolution. Science 323:1597–1600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molino Sr. LN (2006) Emergency Incident Management Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Paulsen MB (ed) (2013) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research: Volume 28, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Salviano CF, Alves AM, Stefanuto GN, Maintinguer ST, Mattos CV, and Zeitoum C (2014) CERTICS - An ISO/IEC 15504 Conformance Model for Software Technological Development and Innovation, in Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 14th International Conference, SPICE 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 4-6, 2014, Proceedings (Mitasiunas A, Rout T, O’Connor RV, and Dorling A eds) pp 48–59, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Elon Musk Says We Need A Universal Basic Income To Cope With Robots Taking Our Jobs, 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

Government Accountability Office (2010) Higher Education: Institutions’ Reported Data Collection Burden Is Higher Than Estimated but Can Be Reduced through Increased Coordination, 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

Darvish H (2015) Smart Power Grid Synchronization with Nonlinear Estimation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Grynbaum MM (2017) Writing Partner ‘Flabbergasted’ By Accusations Against Halperin.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Risbey, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hsiao and Fong, 2004; Risbey, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hsiao and Fong, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Daley et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Mol. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0026-895X
ISSN (online)	1521-0111
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pharmacology