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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Thorne, K. S. Retrospective: John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008). Science 2008, 320 (5883), 1603.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Lively, C. M.; Dybdahl, M. F. Parasite Adaptation to Locally Common Host Genotypes. Nature 2000, 405 (6787), 679–681.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Petta, J. R.; Lu, H.; Gossard, A. C. A Coherent Beam Splitter for Electronic Spin States. Science 2010, 327 (5966), 669–672.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Zhao, K.; Gu, R.; Wang, L.; Xiao, P.; Chen, Y.-H.; Liang, J.; Hu, L.; Fu, X. Voluntary Pressing and Releasing Actions Induce Different Senses of Time: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Responses. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6047.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Ng, K. K. Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

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The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization; Pedersen, T., Bals, L., Ørberg Jensen, P. D., Larsen, M. M., Eds.; Springer: London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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Nguyen, H. T. On Random Sets and Belief Functions. In Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions; Yager, R. R., Liu, L., Eds.; Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; pp 105–116.

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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Rivett, J. Stephen Hawking Has Another Dire Warning For Humanity. 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 Management: Leadership Needed in Managing Federal Telecommunications; IMTEC-87-9; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987.

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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Nonu, M. E. Eagle Lake Climate Change during the Holocene and during the Last 100 Years. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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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Swenson, J. New Orleans Celebrates Fats Domino. New York Times. October 26, 2017, p C1.

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