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

Gingerich O (2004) A radical reorientation. Nature 430:407

A journal article with 2 authors

Papavasiliou FN, Schatz DG (2000) Cell-cycle-regulated DNA double-stranded breaks in somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes. Nature 408:216–221

A journal article with 3 authors

Haerizadeh F, Singh MB, Bhalla PL (2006) Transcriptional repression distinguishes somatic from germ cell lineages in a plant. Science 313:496–499

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu K, Yao Y, Kang Y, et al (2013) A supramolecular approach to fabricate highly emissive smart materials. Sci Rep 3:2372

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramamoorti S, Morrison DE III, Koletar JW, Pope KR (2013) A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sonza Reorda M, Peng Z, Violante M (2005) System-level Test and Validation of Hardware/Software Systems. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

İlsever M, Ünsalan C (2012) Structure-Based Change Detection Methods. In: Ünsalan C (ed) Two-Dimensional Change Detection Methods: Remote Sensing Applications. Springer, London, pp 41–51

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 (2015) Viral DNA In Our Genomes Protects Early Embryos. In: IFLScience. 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 (2005) Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Technical Problems, Cost Increases, and Schedule Delays Trigger Need for Difficult Trade-off Decisions. 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

Darwich MK (2017) Cost-Efficient Video On Demand (VOD) Streaming Using Cloud Services. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Crow K (2001) Using the Art of Graffiti To Start a Conversation. New York Times 146

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