How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 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

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Hernandez, E. R. No Room on the Carousel for Meeting of like Minds. Nature 2000, 407 (6802), 285.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Percec, I.; Bartolomei, M. S. Genetics. Do X Chromosomes Set Boundaries? Science 2002, 295 (5553), 287–288.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Lintunen, A.; Hölttä, T.; Kulmala, M. Anatomical Regulation of Ice Nucleation and Cavitation Helps Trees to Survive Freezing and Drought Stress. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2031.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Gauron, C.; Rampon, C.; Bouzaffour, M.; Ipendey, E.; Teillon, J.; Volovitch, M.; Vriz, S. Sustained Production of ROS Triggers Compensatory Proliferation and Is Required for Regeneration to Proceed. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2084.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Assing, D.; Calé, S. Mobile Access Safety; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA, 2013.

An edited book

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Proceedings of International Conference on Internet Computing and Information Communications: ICICIC Global 2012; Sathiakumar, S., Awasthi, L. K., Masillamani, M. R., Sridhar, S. S., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Springer India: New Delhi, 2014; Vol. 216.

A chapter in an edited book

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Alió, J. L.; Agarwal, A.; Klonowski, P. 0.7 Mm Microincision Cataract Surgery. In Minimizing Incisions and Maximizing Outcomes in Cataract Surgery; Alió, J. L., Fine, I. H., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp 13–23.

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 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.

Blog post

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Andrew, D. What Do Aliens Look Like? The Clue Is In Evolution. 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

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Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: DOD and VA Have Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but Further Actions Are Needed; GAO-08-1158T; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Casco, D. Consonance: An Inter Play of Music and Design to Evoke Curiosity and Awareness of Our Musical Identity. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

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Wagner, J. A Washington Monument To Pitching’s Fickle Nature. New York Times. September 16, 2017, p SP1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Inf. Model.
ISSN (print)	1549-9596
ISSN (online)	1549-960X
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Computer Science Applications Library and Information Sciences