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]

Haff PK. Rivers, blood and transportation networks. Nature. 2000;408:159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lewinsohn TM, Cagnolo L. Ecology. Keystones in a tangled bank. Science. 2012;335:1449–1451.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sherman DH, Tsukamoto S, Williams RM. ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. Comment on “Asymmetric syntheses of sceptrin and massadine and evidence for biosynthetic enantiodivergence.” Science. 2015;349:149.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Park S-H, Yoon S-B, Kim H-K, et al. Spine-like nanostructured carbon interconnected by graphene for high-performance supercapacitors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bauldry WC. Introduction to Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Verma VC, Gange AC, editors. Advances in Endophytic Research. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pedamallu CS, Özdamar L, Csendes T. An Interval Partitioning Approach for Continuous Constrained Optimization. In: Törn A, Žilinskas J, editors. Models and Algorithms for Global Optimization: Essays Dedicated to Antanas Žilinskas on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007. p. 73–96.

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. Watch A Baby Pygmy Hippo Learn To Swim [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-pygmy-hippo-goes-swim/.

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. Americans With Disabilities Act: Challenges Faced by Transit Agencies in Complying With the Act’s Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994. Report No.: RCED-94-58. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Parkinson MM. Adult readers’ calibration of word learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2011.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Sep 28;C21.

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

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