How to format your references using the Molecular Simulation citation style

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

Robinson K. Personal finance. Summer salary and other windfalls. Science. 2006;313(5792):1455.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Horner-Devine MC, Martiny AC. Biogeochemistry. News about nitrogen. Science. 2008;320(5877):757–758.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hagan CL, Kim S, Kahne D. Reconstitution of outer membrane protein assembly from purified components. Science. 2010;328(5980):890–892.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Chong AS, Shen J, Tao J, et al. Reversal of diabetes in non-obese diabetic mice without spleen cell-derived beta cell regeneration. Science. 2006;311(5768):1774–1775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Braha A, Groza G. Moderne Abwassertechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Sun L, Ma H, Fang D, et al., editors. Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks: The 8th China Conference, CWSN 2014, Xi’an, China, October 31--November 2, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hu R, Zhu M. Sn-Based Alloy Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Preparation, Multi-scale Structure, and Performance. In: Ozoemena KI, Chen S, editors. Nanomaterials in Advanced Batteries and Supercapacitors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 93–125.

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 Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Newly Discovered 17th Century Document Described Now-Extinct Mauritian Wildlife [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-17th-century-document-describes-now-extinct-mauritian-wildlife/.

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. Federal Lands: Information on the Use and Impact of Off-Highway Vehicles. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995. Report No.: RCED-95-209. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sanabria A. Root Metaphor [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Kidnapped Boy Freed After Three Years. New York Times. 2003 Dec 12;A21.

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 Simulation
Abbreviation	Mol. Simul.
ISSN (print)	0892-7022
ISSN (online)	1029-0435
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Information Systems General Materials Science Modelling and Simulation Condensed Matter Physics