How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular Liquids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Liquids. 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

[1]

T.G. Shepherd, Climate science: The dynamics of temperature extremes, Nature. 522 (2015) 425–427.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.M. Vabulas, F.U. Hartl, Protein synthesis upon acute nutrient restriction relies on proteasome function, Science. 310 (2005) 1960–1963.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Zhang, L. Sheng, J. Liu, Synthetically chemical-electrical mechanism for controlling large scale reversible deformation of liquid metal objects, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7116.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Fries, J.H. Reynolds, A.E. Rorie, R. Desimone, Modulation of oscillatory neuronal synchronization by selective visual attention, Science. 291 (2001) 1560–1563.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. De Vos, Reversible Computing, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. Mach-Król, T. Pełech-Pilichowski, eds., Advances in Business ICT, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Joselevich, H. Dai, J. Liu, K. Hata, A. H. Windle, Carbon Nanotube Synthesis and Organization, in: A. Jorio, G. Dresselhaus, M.S. Dresselhaus (Eds.), Carbon Nanotubes: Advanced Topics in the Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 101–165.

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 Molecular Liquids.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Oldest Known Message-In-A-Bottle Found, IFLScience. (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Content Analysis: A Methodology for Structuring and Analyzing Written Material--Transfer Paper 10.1.3, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.P. Tyler, Tectonic geomorphology of quaternary river terraces at Santa Cruz Creek, Santa Maria Basin, Santa Barbara County, California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

L. Himelstein, Like a Tupperware Party, With Punching, New York Times. (2012) E5.

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 Molecular Liquids
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Liq.
ISSN (print)	0167-7322
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Spectroscopy Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics