How to format your references using the Molecules citation style

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

Brinster, R.L. Male Germline Stem Cells: From Mice to Men. Science 2007, 316, 404–405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, B.W.; Clark, N.A. Alignment of Liquid Crystals with Patterned Isotropic Surfaces. Science 2001, 291, 2576–2580.

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller, H.; Peters, A.; Chu, S. A Precision Measurement of the Gravitational Redshift by the Interference of Matter Waves. Nature 2010, 463, 926–929.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Razem, F.A.; El-Kereamy, A.; Abrams, S.R.; Hill, R.D. The RNA-Binding Protein FCA Is an Abscisic Acid Receptor. Nature 2006, 439, 290–294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Segal, H.P. Utopias; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781118496053.

An edited book

Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 10th International Symposium, SSTD 2007, Boston, MA, USA, July 16-18, 2007. Proceedings; Papadias, D., Zhang, D., Kollios, G., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; Vol. 4605; ISBN 9783540735397.

A chapter in an edited book

Natour, G. The Nakba—Flight and Expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948. In Catastrophes: Views from Natural and Human Sciences; Hoppe, A., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 81–104 ISBN 9783319208459.

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 Molecules.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Laboratory Grown Vaginas Successfully Transplanted Into Patients Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/laboratory-grown-vaginas-succesfully-transplanted-patients/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Aviation Security: Further Steps Needed to Strengthen the Security of Commercial Airport Perimeters and Access Controls; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2004;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yackel, R.J. Recruitment and Retention of Nurses in Long -Term Care within the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2010.

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

Apuzzo, M.; Goldman, A.; Mazzetti, M. F.B.I. Warned G.O.P. Congressman Russian Spies Were Recruiting Him. New York Times 2017, A15.

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	Molecules
Abbreviation	Molecules
ISSN (online)	1420-3049
Scope	Organic Chemistry