How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 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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Cattaneo, A. Astrophysics: The Slow Death of Red Galaxies. Nature 2015, 521 (7551), 164–165.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Green, D. R.; Kroemer, G. Cytoplasmic Functions of the Tumour Suppressor P53. Nature 2009, 458 (7242), 1127–1130.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Winter, Y.; López, J.; Von Helversen, O. Ultraviolet Vision in a Bat. Nature 2003, 425 (6958), 612–614.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Jeong, H.; Tombor, B.; Albert, R.; Oltvai, Z. N.; Barabási, A. L. The Large-Scale Organization of Metabolic Networks. Nature 2000, 407 (6804), 651–654.

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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Tan, Y. Artificial Immune System Applications in Computersecurity; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

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ICT Innovations 2014: World of Data; Bogdanova, A. M., Gjorgjevikj, D., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 311.

A chapter in an edited book

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Fan, X. J.; Tee, T. Y.; Shi, X. Q.; Xie, B. Modeling of Moisture Diffusion and Whole-Field Vapor Pressure in Plastic Packages of IC Devices. In Moisture Sensitivity of Plastic Packages of IC Devices; Fan, X. J., Suhir, E., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2010; pp 91–112.

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 Theory and Computation.

Blog post

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Hale, T. Scientists Once Caught An Antarctic Fur Seal Trying To Have Sex With Its Mom. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-believe-antarctic-fur-seals-have-oedipus-complex0/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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. University Funding: Assessing Federal Funding Mechanisms for University Research; RCED-86-75; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1986.

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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Holmberg, M. B. Alternative Nitrogen for Subsequent Southern Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Production Using Cool-Season Legumes. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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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Grynbaum, M. M. Familiar Cycle of Partisan Combat Churns Again, and Trump Is Again at the Center. New York Times. June 5, 2017, p A6.

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 Theory and Computation
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Theory Comput.
ISSN (print)	1549-9618
ISSN (online)	1549-9626
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Computer Science Applications