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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 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]

R.E. Holdsworth, Planetary science. Weak faults--rotten cores, Science 303 (2004) 181–182.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.H. Schmitt, R. Wichmann, Ground-based observation of emission lines from the corona of a red-dwarf star, Nature 412 (2001) 508–510.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Savill, C. Gregory, C. Haslett, Cell biology. Eat me or die, Science 302 (2003) 1516–1517.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Dobbek, V. Svetlitchnyi, L. Gremer, R. Huber, O. Meyer, Crystal structure of a carbon monoxide dehydrogenase reveals a [Ni-4Fe-5S] cluster, Science 293 (2001) 1281–1285.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Inherently Safer Chemical Processes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Y.Q. Shi, ed., Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security VII, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.P. Pradhan, K. Das, Determinants of Regional Exports, in: K. Das (Ed.), Manufacturing Exports from Indian States: Determinants and Policy Imperatives, Springer India, New Delhi, 2016: pp. 45–68.

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 Spectroscopy.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Iris Scanners Can Now Identify Us From 40 Feet Away, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/iris-scanners-can-now-identify-us-40-feet-away/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Security: DHS Has Taken Steps to Enhance International Aviation Security and Facilitate Compliance with International Standards, but Challenges Remain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.C. Beeler, Disordered Ultracold Two-Dimensional Bose Gases, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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, Court Limits Protection Against Improper Entry, New York Times (2006) A28.

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 Spectroscopy
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Spectrosc.
ISSN (print)	0022-2852
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Spectroscopy Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics