How to format your references using the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 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 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

[1]

B. Greenwood, Between hope and a hard place, Nature 430 (2004) 926–927.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Lasne, J. de Ceaurriz, Recombinant erythropoietin in urine, Nature 405 (2000) 635.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.M. Miner-Williams, P.J. Moughan, M.F. Fuller, Analysis of an ethanol precipitate from ileal digesta: evaluation of a method to determine mucin, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3145.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Nestola, N. Korolev, M. Kopylova, N. Rotiroti, D.G. Pearson, M.G. Pamato, M. Alvaro, L. Peruzzo, J.J. Gurney, A.E. Moore, J. Davidson, CaSiO3 perovskite in diamond indicates the recycling of oceanic crust into the lower mantle, Nature 555 (2018) 237–241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.C. Hu, Asset Securitization, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

F. Catoni, The Mathematics of Minkowski Space-Time: With an Introduction to Commutative Hypercomplex Numbers, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T.V. Bartolotta, A. Taibbi, E. Quaia, M. Midiri, Applicazione dei mezzi di contrasto ecografici nelle lesioni focali del fegato steatosico, nelle lesioni epatiche rare e nelle pseudolesioni del fegato, in: E. Quaia (Ed.), Mezzi Di Contrasto in Ecografia: Applicazioni Addominali, Springer, Milano, 2007: pp. 45–62.

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 Spectroscopy.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Daphnis Making Waves In Saturn’s Rings, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/daphnis-making-waves-in-saturns-rings/ (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, [Comments on DOD Data Center Consolidation Plan], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.C. Hilton, Case study on organic farming as a sustainable solution for African-American farmers, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2015.

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]

G. Vecsey, Thrown by Life’s Curveballs, A Star Missed the Signals, New York Times (2013) D1.

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 Spectroscopy
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Spectrosc.
ISSN (print)	0022-2852
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Spectroscopy Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics