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

Alvarez-Buylla A (2014) Yoshiki Sasai (1962-2014). Nature 513:34

A journal article with 2 authors

Hennessy ET, Betley TA (2013) Complex N-heterocycle synthesis via iron-catalyzed, direct C-H bond amination. Science 340:591–595

A journal article with 3 authors

Fenn KM, Nusbaum HC, Margoliash D (2003) Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language. Nature 425:614–616

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Girart JM, Beltrán MT, Zhang Q, et al (2009) Magnetic fields in the formation of massive stars. Science 324:1408–1411

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li FM, Nathan A, Wu Y, Ong BS (2011) Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Songstad DD, Hatfield JL, Tomes DT (2014) Convergence of Food Security, Energy Security and Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bosman PAN, Thierens D (2006) Numerical Optimization with Real-Valued Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithms. In: Pelikan M, Sastry K, CantúPaz E (eds) Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 91–120

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) Stem Cells Regenerate Monkey Hearts. 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 (1997) Education Programs: Information on the Ed-Flex Demonstration Project. 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

Tabak S (2015) Aspiring States at the International Court of Justice. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Chira S (2017) Women Interrupted. New York Times B1

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

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