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

Adami C (2015) Artificial intelligence: Robots with instincts. Nature 521:426–427

A journal article with 2 authors

Bennett CH, Shor PW (2004) Computers and mathematics. Quantum channel capacities. Science 303:1784–1787

A journal article with 3 authors

Lestas I, Vinnicombe G, Paulsson J (2010) Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations. Nature 467:174–178

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Leidel S, Pedrioli PGA, Bucher T, et al (2009) Ubiquitin-related modifier Urm1 acts as a sulphur carrier in thiolation of eukaryotic transfer RNA. Nature 458:228–232

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pande A, Wolshon B (2015) Traffic Engineering Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tatnall A, Visscher A, Finegan A, O’Mahony C (2009) Evolution of Information Technology in Educational Management. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Grünig R, Morschett D (2012) Strategic planning of a domestic company as the starting point for going international. In: Morschett D (ed) Developing International Strategies: Going and Being International for Medium-sized Companies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 65–87

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) SpaceX Unveils Its Stylish Crew Dragon Spacecraft That Will Take Astronauts To Space. 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 (1979) Interagency Laboratory Use: Current Practices and Recurring Problems. 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

Bornmann JW (2009) Becoming soldiers: Army Basic Training and the negotiation of identity. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Hubbard B (2016) Doctor-Turned-Artist Reveals Holy City’s Hidden Side. New York Times A9

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

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