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]

A.G. Clark, Genetics: The vital Y chromosome, Nature 508 (2014) 463–465.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Entcheva, J.C. Williams, Channelrhodopsin2 current during the action potential: “optical AP clamp” and approximation, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5838.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.T. Fearon, P. Manders, S.D. Wagner, Arrested differentiation, the self-renewing memory lymphocyte, and vaccination, Science 293 (2001) 248–250.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.H. Hinchcliffe, F.J. Miller, M. Cham, A. Khodjakov, G. Sluder, Requirement of a centrosomal activity for cell cycle progression through G1 into S phase, Science 291 (2001) 1547–1550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.A. Stratton, Electromagnetic Theory, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J.-P. Saint-Jeannet, ed., Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Quay, J. Seaman, The Environmental Crisis and a Desire for Adventure, in: J. Quay, J. Seaman (Eds.), John Dewey and Education Outdoors: Making Sense of the ‘Educational Situation’ through More than a Century of Progressive Reforms, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2013: pp. 45–59.

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]

T. Hale, Robot Tricks Website‘s “I Am Not A Robot” Test Then Does Mic Drop, IFLScience (2017).

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, Program Administration at the Atterbury Job Corps Center in Indiana, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.D. Parker, Uncovering Three Trumpet Works of Sofia Gubaidulina, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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. Greenhouse, Advice to New Chief From the Lesser of Two Equals: Call Me Nino, New York Times (2005) A20.

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