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]

F.N. von Hippel, Energy. Plutonium and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, Science. 293 (2001) 2397–2398.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Allmann, I.T. Baldwin, Insects betray themselves in nature to predators by rapid isomerization of green leaf volatiles, Science. 329 (2010) 1075–1078.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Preis, H.S. Moat, H.E. Stanley, Quantifying trading behavior in financial markets using Google Trends, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1684.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Yoshida, L.E. Jones, S.P. Ellner, N.G. Hairston Jr, Ecology: mechanisms for consumer diversity, Nature. 439 (2006) E1-2; discussion E2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Blundell, R. Harrison, B. Turney, The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

T. Borangiu, M. Dragoicea, H. Nóvoa, eds., Exploring Services Science: 7th International Conference, IESS 2016, Bucharest, Romania, May 25-27, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Kahanec, K.F. Zimmermann, Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?, in: F. Keereman, I. Szekely (Eds.), Five Years of an Enlarged EU: A Positive Sum Game, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 63–94.

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]

R. Andrews, These Maps Reveal How Vulnerable Your State Is To Earthquakes, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/maps-vulnerable-state-earthquakes/ (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, National Airspace System: Incomplete Transition Back to National Maintenance and Certification Standards in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Alaskan Region, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.R. Horton, Financial crisis within the nonprofit sector, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2013.

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]

A. Ahmed, P. Nunez, A. Blinder, From Haiti to Florida, a Hurricane’s Trail of Disaster and Near Misses, New York Times. (2016) A24.

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

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