How to format your references using the Journal of Cheminformatics citation style

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

Gill GN (2002) A pit stop at the ER. Science 295:1654–1655

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurzban R, Barrett HC (2012) Behavior. Origins of cumulative culture. Science 335:1056–1057

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim S, Ubel P, De Vries R (2009) Pruning the regulatory tree. Nature 457:534–535

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Krimpenfort P, Quon KC, Mooi WJ, et al (2001) Loss of p16Ink4a confers susceptibility to metastatic melanoma in mice. Nature 413:83–86

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li F (2006) Developing Chemical Information Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cai J-Y, Cooper SB, Li A (2006) Theory and Applications of Models of Computation: Third International Conference, TAMC 2006, Beijing, China, May 15-20, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Schuecker C, Pettermann HE (2008) Combining Elastic Brittle Damage with Plasticity to Model the Non-linear behavior of Fiber Reinforced Laminates. In: Dávila CG, Pinho ST, Remmers JJC (eds) Mechanical Response of Composites. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 99–117

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 Cheminformatics.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Could We Be Wrong About The Speed Of Light? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/could-we-be-wrong-about-speed-light/. 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 (1982) The Army’s Multiple Launch Rocket System Is Progressing Well and Merits Continued Support. 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

Garcia M (2015) College preparedness program for high school students in South Los Angeles, California: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2015) ‘Sisters in Law.’ New York Times BR1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Cheminformatics
Abbreviation	J. Cheminform.
ISSN (online)	1758-2946
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Science Applications Library and Information Sciences