How to format your references using the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 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

Luo J (2014) Loops and autonomy promote evolvability of ecosystem networks. Sci Rep 4:6440

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams DA, Baum C (2003) Medicine. Gene therapy--new challenges ahead. Science 302:400–401

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh SK, Yamashita A, Gouaux E (2007) Antidepressant binding site in a bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter transporters. Nature 448:952–956

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li Y, Samad YA, Polychronopoulou K, et al (2014) Highly electrically conductive nanocomposites based on polymer-infused graphene sponges. Sci Rep 4:4652

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rabe JL, Martorana RJ (2014) Alts Democratized. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

David E, Larson K, Rogers A, et al (2012) Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets: AMEC 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010, and TADA 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 7, 2010 Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lin CY-Y, Chen J (2016) Two-Stage Model of Societal Innovation. In: Chen J (ed) The Impact of Societal and Social Innovation: A Case-Based Approach. Springer, Singapore, pp 51–62

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 Computer-Aided Molecular Design.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Letter Penned By Charles Darwin Returned To The Smithsonian, 30 Years After It Was Stolen. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/letter-penned-by-charles-darwin-returned-to-the-smithsonian-thirty-years-after-it-was-stolen/. 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 (1991) NASA Procurement: Management Oversight of Contract Costs and Time Changes Could Be Enhanced. 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

Zhang Y (2017) A Grant Proposal for Mindfulness-Based Self-Care Training for Child Welfare Workers. 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C24

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 Computer-Aided Molecular Design
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Aided Mol. Des.
ISSN (print)	0920-654X
ISSN (online)	1573-4951
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Computer Science Applications Drug Discovery