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

Betz AG (2010) Immunology. Have you seen your mother, baby. Science 330:1635–1636

A journal article with 2 authors

Willis KJ, Whittaker RJ (2002) Ecology. Species diversity--scale matters. Science 295:1245–1248

A journal article with 3 authors

Loewe L, Textor V, Scherer S (2003) High deleterious genomic mutation rate in stationary phase of Escherichia coli. Science 302:1558–1560

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Krot AN, Amelin Y, Cassen P, Meibom A (2005) Young chondrules in CB chondrites from a giant impact in the early Solar System. Nature 436:989–992

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schattke W, Díez Muiño R (2013) Quantum Monte Carlo Programming. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Gellert U, Giménez Rodríguez J, Hahn C, Kafoussi S (2015) Educational Paths to Mathematics: A C.I.E.A.E.M. Sourcebook. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Li M, He G (2006) Fast Mode Decision Algorithm in H.263+/H.264 Intra Transcoder. In: Zhuang Y, Yang S-Q, Rui Y, He Q (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2006: 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hangzhou, China, November 2-4, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–47

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

Andrew D (2016) Reindeer Are Still Very Radioactive 30 Years After Chernobyl. 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 (1999) Observations on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 2000 Performance Plan. 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

Emenyonu NI (2012) Barriers to HIV care in rural Uganda. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kelly C (2009) Physical Therapy and the Camaraderie of Healing. New York Times D5

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