How to format your references using the Molecular Data Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular Data Science. 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

[1]

G. Hunt, Paleontology. Variation and early evolution, Science 317 (2007) 459–460.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.J. Brett, M.M. Hawkeye, Materials science. New materials at a glance, Science 319 (2008) 1192–1193.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.K. Pullium, G.S. Roble, M.A. Raymond, Emergency planning: Be prepared, Nature 514 (2014) 430.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.I. Moreno, G.L. Jacobson Jr, T.V. Lowell, G.H. Denton, Interhemispheric climate links revealed by late-glacial cooling episode in southern Chile, Nature 409 (2001) 804–808.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Onstott, AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® Essentials, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

R. Vazquez, Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows: Boundary Stabilization and State Estimation, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hassenzahl, The Thing and I: Understanding the Relationship Between User and Product, in: M.A. Blythe, K. Overbeeke, A.F. Monk, P.C. Wright (Eds.), Funology: From Usability to Enjoyment, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005: pp. 31–42.

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 Molecular Data Science.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free, IFLScience (2014).

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, Doctoral Programs in Public Administration: Some Basic Data and a Few Comments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

I.M. Arguello, Circle of Sisters summer program: A grant-writing project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

S. Haigney, A Stolen de Kooning Emerges Decades Later, New York Times (2017) C3.

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	Molecular Data Science
ISSN (print)	2590-0633
Scope