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

Tromans A (2000) Entomology. Love is not puffed up. Nature 404:138

A journal article with 2 authors

Knorr G, Lohmann G (2003) Southern Ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation. Nature 424:532–536

A journal article with 3 authors

Hautier Y, Niklaus PA, Hector A (2009) Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication. Science 324:636–638

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang C, Wei X, Marhic ME, Wong KKY (2014) Ultrafast and versatile spectroscopy by temporal Fourier transform. Sci Rep 4:5351

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meyer MD (2016) Transportation Planning Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Voronkov A, Virbitskaite I (2015) Perspectives of System Informatics: 9th International Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wentz B, Cirba M, Kharal N, et al (2012) Evaluating the Accessibility and Usability of Blogging Platforms for Blind Users. In: Langdon P, Clarkson J, Robinson P, et al (eds) Designing Inclusive Systems: Designing Inclusion for Real-world Applications. Springer, London, pp 43–52

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

Hale T (2015) Watch The First Ever Video Of The World’s Most Elusive Whale. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-first-ever-video-worlds-most-elusive-whale/. 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 (1987) Telephone Communications: Issues Affecting Rural Telephone Service. 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

Momenteller J (2017) Optimization of Germination and Early Growth Conditions for Axenic Stanleya pinnata, a Potential Phytoremediation Candidate for Selenium. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Brantley B (2017) Scare Easily? You’re in the Wrong Place. New York Times C6

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