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

Ford AT (2015) The mechanistic pathways of trophic interactions in human-occupied landscapes. Science 350:1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hunt JH, and Amdam GV (2005) Bivoltinism as an antecedent to eusociality in the paper wasp genus Polistes. Science 308:264–267.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fischer J, Baumgartner J, and Marschner C (2005) Synthesis and structure of sila-adamantane. Science 310:825.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Nürnberg DJ, Morton J, Santabarbara S, Telfer A, Joliot P, Antonaru LA, Ruban AV, Cardona T, Krausz E, Boussac A, Fantuzzi A, and Rutherford AW (2018) Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f-containing photosystems. Science 360:1210–1213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Will H (2011) »Sei naiv und mach’ ein Experiment«: Feodor Lynen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Zhang Z, and Siekmann J (eds) (2007) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: Second International Conference, KSEM 2007, Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Graube G, and Mammes I (2016) Pre-University Engineering Education in Germany, in Pre-university Engineering Education (Vries MJ de, Gumaelius L, and Skogh I-B eds) pp 47–63, SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

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

Hamilton K (2016) 2016, The Year That Was: Science And Technology, 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 (2016) Federal Human Resources Data: OPM Should Improve the Availability and Reliability of Payroll Data to Support Accountability and Workforce Analytics, 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

Rus EL (2017) A grant proposal for program “Tech Connect”: Bridging the generations through technology coaching, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon M (2012) All-American Match, All-American Ending.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ford, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hunt and Amdam, 2005; Ford, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hunt and Amdam, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Nürnberg et al., 2018)

About the journal

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