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

Harmer MP (2011) Materials science. The phase behavior of interfaces. Science 332:182–183

A journal article with 2 authors

Hornby GS, Kurtoglu T (2009) Computer science. Toward a smarter Web. Science 325:277–278

A journal article with 3 authors

Li CW, Ciston J, Kanan MW (2014) Electroreduction of carbon monoxide to liquid fuel on oxide-derived nanocrystalline copper. Nature 508:504–507

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang Y, Akiyama H, Terakado K, Nakatsu T (2013) Impact of site-directed mutant luciferase on quantitative green and orange/red emission intensities in firefly bioluminescence. Sci Rep 3:2490

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baudin P (2014) Wireless Transceiver Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pechan P (2011) Safe or Not Safe: Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our Environment and Food. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Flowers R (2016) Deliberate and Emergent Approaches to Practice Development: Lessons Learned from the Australian Environment Movement. In: Trede F, McEwen C (eds) Educating the Deliberate Professional: Preparing for future practices. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–73

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 (2014) Milking The Most Venomous Fish In The World. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/milking-most-venomous-fish-world/. 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 (1998) Social Security Administration: Software Development Process Improvements Started But Work Remains. 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

Sousa KL (2012) Soul Seeking: A Crossing. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Kelly C (2013) Decades Later, Revisiting a Death in the Family. New York Times A27B

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harmer 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hornby and Kurtoglu 2009; Harmer 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hornby and Kurtoglu 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

About the journal

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