How to format your references using the European Journal of Futures Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Futures Research. 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

Rieppel O (2009) Evolution. How did the turtle get its shell? Science 325:154–155

A journal article with 2 authors

Vernot B, Akey JM (2014) Resurrecting surviving Neandertal lineages from modern human genomes. Science 343:1017–1021

A journal article with 3 authors

Terry LJ, Shows EB, Wente SR (2007) Crossing the nuclear envelope: hierarchical regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport. Science 318:1412–1416

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bakr WS, Gillen JI, Peng A, et al (2009) A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice. Nature 462:74–77

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meinert CL (2012) Clinical Trials Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Frigessi A, Bühlmann P, Glad IK, et al (2016) Statistical Analysis for High-Dimensional Data: The Abel Symposium 2014, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Chakrabarti G, Sen C (2012) Global Stock Market, Knife-Edge Stability and the Crisis. In: Sen C (ed) Anatomy of Global Stock Market Crashes: An Empirical Analysis. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 49–62

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 European Journal of Futures Research.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Bone-House Wasp Protects Nest With Ant Corpses. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bone-house-wasp-protects-nest-ant-corpses/. 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 (1993) State of the Airline Industry: Strategies for Addressing Financial and Competition Problems. 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

Herrera K (2010) Improved transportation for older adult volunteers: A grant proposal. 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

Kishkovsky S (2012) Russia: Prosecutors Investigate After Exhibition Draws Complaints. New York Times A7

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	European Journal of Futures Research
ISSN (print)	2195-4194
ISSN (online)	2195-2248
Scope