How to format your references using the Journal of Cheminformatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cheminformatics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smith A (2002) Screening for drug discovery: the leading question. Nature 418:453–459

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro L, Losick R (2013) Retrospective. Francois Jacob (1920-2013). Science 340:939

A journal article with 3 authors

Alimardani M, Nishio S, Ishiguro H (2013) Humanlike robot hands controlled by brain activity arouse illusion of ownership in operators. Sci Rep 3:2396

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Frazão C, McVey CE, Amblar M, et al (2006) Unravelling the dynamics of RNA degradation by ribonuclease II and its RNA-bound complex. Nature 443:110–114

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaffney S, Francis C (2009) Honesty Sells. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Todorov IG, Turowska L (2014) Algebraic Methods in Functional Analysis: The Victor Shulman Anniversary Volume. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Carey N (2011) On a Class of Locally Symmetric Sequences: The Right Infinite Word Λ θ. In: Agon C, Andreatta M, Assayag G, et al (eds) Mathematics and Computation in Music: Third International Conference, MCM 2011, Paris, France, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 42–55

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 Cheminformatics.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Satellite Images Of Lakes In Siberia Could Show Something Worrying. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/satellite-images-of-lakes-in-siberia-could-show-something-worrying/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2000) Electronic Signature: Sanction of the Department of State’s System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

George KA (2014) Housing adequacy and civic engagement in Los Angeles County. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Sisario B (2017) Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’ at No. 1 for Third Week. New York Times 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	Journal of Cheminformatics
Abbreviation	J. Cheminform.
ISSN (online)	1758-2946
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Science Applications Library and Information Sciences