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

Noffke N (2009) Journal club. An astrobiologist considers life’s oldest oxygen. Nature 457:939

A journal article with 2 authors

Karim SSA, Karim QA (2010) AIDS research must link to local policy. Nature 463:733–734

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai Y, Zhang G, Zhang Y-W (2014) Layer-dependent band alignment and work function of few-layer phosphorene. Sci Rep 4:6677

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yeh S-W, Kug J-S, Dewitte B, et al (2009) El Niño in a changing climate. Nature 461:511–514

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dao TT, Ho Ba Tho M-C (2014) Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Davis J, Ramon J (2015) Inductive Logic Programming: 24th International Conference, ILP 2014, Nancy, France, September 14-16, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Macario AJL, Conway de Macario E, Cappello F (2013) Structural and Hereditary Chaperonopathies: Mutation. In: Conway de Macario E, Cappello F (eds) The Chaperonopathies: Diseases with Defective Molecular Chaperones. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–62

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

Andrew E (2015) Flowers Pose A Health Risk For Bees. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flowers-pose-health-risk-bees/. 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 (2015) Unmanned Aerial Systems: Status of Test Sites and International Developments. 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

Smith J (2012) The work expectations of individuals with developmental disabilities. 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

Hanc J (2016) A Marathon Back Door That Leads to a Cause. New York Times SP5

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