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

Anderson PW (2009) A Gross-Pitaevskii treatment for supersolid helium. Science 324:631–632

A journal article with 2 authors

Kippenberg TJ, Vahala KJ (2008) Cavity optomechanics: back-action at the mesoscale. Science 321:1172–1176

A journal article with 3 authors

Joseph AC, Joseph SE, Chen G (2014) Cross-border portfolio investment networks and indicators for financial crises. Sci Rep 4:3991

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hotchkiss RS, Dunne WM, Swanson PE, et al (2001) Role of apoptosis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia. Science 294:1783

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kampen TU (2010) Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Castanho MARB, Güner-Akdogan G (2012) The Researching, Teaching, and Learning Triangle. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Wolf U, Wiezorek T (2008) Radiophysical Principles. In: Seegenschmiedt MH, Makoski H-B, Trott K-R, Brady LW (eds) Radiotherapy for Non-Malignant Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–87

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

Fang J (2014) Cheetahs and Pumas Have Hunting Down to a Science. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cheetahs-and-pumas-have-hunting-down-science/. 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 (1980) Review of the Battlefield Exploitation and Target Acquisition System. 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

Norman CL (2015) Perceptions of non-traditional programs within Missouri school districts. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Cooper M (2017) A Personal Milestone For A.B.T.’s Fall Season. New York Times C3

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