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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Structure. 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. Dalton, EarthScope. Deep thoughts, Nature 405 (2000) 390–392.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.E. Cresswell, H.M. Thompson, Comment on “A common pesticide decreases foraging success and survival in honey bees,” Science 337 (2012) 1453; author reply 1453.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Mohn, D. Handler, J. Brennecke, Noncoding RNA. piRNA-guided slicing specifies transcripts for Zucchini-dependent, phased piRNA biogenesis, Science 348 (2015) 812–817.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Liu, M. Linderman, Z. Ouyang, L. An, J. Yang, H. Zhang, Ecological degradation in protected areas: the case of Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas, Science 292 (2001) 98–101.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.C. McMaster, HPLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

G.M. Golinelli, ed., Cultural Heritage and Value Creation: Towards New Pathways, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Molnár, G. López-Bendito, D. Blakey, A. Thompson, S. Higashi, The Earliest Thalamocortical Interactions, in: R. Erzurumlu, W. Guido, Z. Molnár (Eds.), Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006: pp. 54–78.

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 Structure.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, Amazing Footage Of Great White Sticking Its Nose In A Shark Cage, IFLScience (2017).

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, The Office of Science and Technology Policy: Adaptation to a President’s Operating Style May Conflict With Congressionally Mandated Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Mueck, Physiology of the Invasive Apple Snail, Pomacea maculata (Perry, 1810), in Louisiana, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

M.W. Walsh, Bad Math and a Coming Public Pension Crisis, New York Times (2015) B1.

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 Structure
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Struct.
ISSN (print)	0022-2860
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Spectroscopy