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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Modeling. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Silk JB (2014) Animal behaviour: The evolutionary roots of lethal conflict. Nature 513:321–322

A journal article with 2 authors

Karplus PA, Diederichs K (2012) Linking crystallographic model and data quality. Science 336:1030–1033

A journal article with 3 authors

Sigman DM, Hain MP, Haug GH (2010) The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO(2) concentration. Nature 466:47–55

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bradshaw N, Neher SB, Booth DS, Walter P (2009) Signal sequences activate the catalytic switch of SRP RNA. Science 323:127–130

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdul-Rahman Y (2014) The Art of RF (Riba-Free) Islamic Banking and Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Williams PJ, Jones A, Buntting C (2015) The Future of Technology Education. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Galdi GP, Neustupa J (2016) Stability of Steady Flow Past a Rotating Body. In: Shibata Y, Suzuki Y (eds) Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Present and Future: Tokyo, Japan, November 2014. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 71–94

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 Modeling.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Google’s AI Is Now Creating Its Own AI. 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 (2008) Transportation Security: TSA Has Developed a Risk-Based Covert Testing Program, but Could Better Mitigate Aviation Security Vulnerabilities Identified Through Covert Tests. 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

Escobedo K (2017) Sana Mente Center. 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

Wasik JF (2016) Trading Stocks for Bonds Poses Its Own Risks. New York Times B4

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 Modeling
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Model.
ISSN (print)	1610-2940
ISSN (online)	0948-5023
Scope	Catalysis Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Science Applications