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

McGilvray A (2014) Research assessment: the limits of excellence. Nature 511:S64-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Rydelek PA, Tuttle M (2004) Explosive craters and soil liquefaction. Nature 427:115–116

A journal article with 3 authors

Bergmann DC, Lukowitz W, Somerville CR (2004) Stomatal development and pattern controlled by a MAPKK kinase. Science 304:1494–1497

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dupuy AJ, Akagi K, Largaespada DA, et al (2005) Mammalian mutagenesis using a highly mobile somatic Sleeping Beauty transposon system. Nature 436:221–226

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wernecke R (2003) Industrielle Feuchtemessung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Bol G, Rachev ST, Würth R (2009) Risk Assessment: Decisions in Banking and Finance. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Botti V, Garrido A, Giret A, Noriega P (2012) The Role of MAS as a Decision Support Tool in a Water-Rights Market. In: Dechesne F, Hattori H, Mors AT, et al (eds) Advanced Agent Technology: AAMAS 2011 Workshops, AMPLE, AOSE, ARMS, DOCM3AS, ITMAS, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–49

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

Andrew E (2015) Sperm Whales Have Local Dialects, New Study Shows. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sperm-whales-have-local-dialects-new-study-shows/. 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 (2003) Rail Safety and Security: Some Actions Already Taken to Enhance Rail Security, but Risk-based Plan Needed. 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

Hylton JK (2016) Scatter; Or, A Series or Minor Inconveniences. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Brantley B (2017) Finally Taking Shakespeare’s ‘Measure.’ New York Times C5

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