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

Russo E (2002) Biodefence research. Nature 416:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Doherty CJ, Kay SA (2012) Circadian surprise--it’s not all about transcription. Science 338:338–340

A journal article with 3 authors

Chaudhari NK, Song MY, Yu J-S (2014) Heteroatom-doped highly porous carbon from human urine. Sci Rep 4:5221

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gulde S, Riebe M, Lancaster GPT, et al (2003) Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm on an ion-trap quantum computer. Nature 421:48–50

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman NP (2010) Process Engineering for a Small Planet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Shai A (2005) Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin: Diagnosis and Therapy — The Practical Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Osipov A, Rokhlin V, Xiao H (2013) Analysis of the Integral Operator. In: Rokhlin V, Xiao H (eds) Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions of Order Zero: Mathematical Tools for Bandlimited Approximation. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 135–169

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

Fang J (2014) Nearby Star Escapes Black Hole, But Loses Jupiter-Sized Chunk. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nearby-star-escapes-black-hole-loses-jupiter-sized-chunk/. 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 (1978) Proposed Procedure for Access by GAO to Records of Students in the Murphy School District. 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

Labelle DA (2012) Perceived barriers to recruitment and retention in rural healthcare sectors: A physical therapist narrative inquiry. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

(nyt) SK (2005) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Blast In Dagestan Kills 3. New York Times A8

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