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

Markov IL (2014) Limits on fundamental limits to computation. Nature 512:147–154

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens MM, George JH (2005) Exploring and engineering the cell surface interface. Science 310:1135–1138

A journal article with 3 authors

Koenderink AF, Alù A, Polman A (2015) Nanophotonics: shrinking light-based technology. Science 348:516–521

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brierley CM, Fedorov AV, Liu Z, et al (2009) Greatly expanded tropical warm pool and weakened Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene. Science 323:1714–1718

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Modarres M, Amiri M, Jackson C (2017) Probabilistic Physics of Failure Approach to Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cohen R (2014) Android Application Development for the Intel® Platform. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Abdel-Khalek AM (2014) Religiosity and Well-Being in a Muslim Context. In: Kim-Prieto C (ed) Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–85

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) Biofilms – The Bacterial Wound Communities That Protect Themselves From Attack. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biofilms-bacterial-wound-communities-protect-themselves-attack/. 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 (2012) Early Child Care and Education: HHS and Education Are Taking Steps to Improve Workforce Data and Enhance Worker Quality. 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

Black DD (2014) Franz Liszt’s “Via Crucis”: A summation of the composer’s styles and beliefs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Hollander S (2002) National Titles Go to Wealing And Lindquist. New York Times D6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Markov 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Stevens and George 2005; Markov 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stevens and George 2005)
Three or more authors: (Brierley et al. 2009)

About the journal

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