How to format your references using the Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Stern A (2012) Commercial space flight is a game-changer. Nature 484:417

A journal article with 2 authors

Krasnopolsky VA, Feldman PD (2001) Detection of molecular hydrogen in the atmosphere of Mars. Science 294:1914–1917

A journal article with 3 authors

Korswagen HC, Herman MA, Clevers HC (2000) Distinct beta-catenins mediate adhesion and signalling functions in C. elegans. Nature 406:527–532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tilstra JS, Gaddy DF, Zhao J, et al (2014) Pharmacologic IKK/NF-κB inhibition causes antigen presenting cells to undergo TNFα dependent ROS-mediated programmed cell death. Sci Rep 4:3631

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach J (2010) Excel® VBA Programming For Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Borea PA (ed) (2010) A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Ohori KA, Damiand G, Ledoux H (2014) Constructing an n-dimensional Cell Complex from a Soup of (n − 1)-Dimensional Faces. In: Gupta P, Zaroliagis C (eds) Applied Algorithms: First International Conference, ICAA 2014, Kolkata, India, January 13-15, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 37–48

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 Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) In Focus: New Horizons’ Crisp Images Shed New Light On The Origins Of Pluto And Its Moons. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2017) Information Technology: Opportunities for Improving Acquisitions and Operations. 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

Mullis J (2009) The impact of the media on public opinion of the police. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Feeney K (2008) A Cornucopia Of Produce. New York Times NJ14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stern 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Krasnopolsky and Feldman 2001; Stern 2012).

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

Two authors: (Krasnopolsky and Feldman 2001)
Three or more authors: (Tilstra et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
ISSN (online)	2191-2858
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