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

Clark PU (2002) Early deglaciation in the tropical Andes. Science 298:7; discussion 7

A journal article with 2 authors

Pfeiffer BE, Foster DJ (2015) PLACE CELLS. Autoassociative dynamics in the generation of sequences of hippocampal place cells. Science 349:180–183

A journal article with 3 authors

Nesvorný D, Vokrouhlický D, Bottke WF (2006) The breakup of a main-belt asteroid 450 thousand years ago. Science 312:1490

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hirschey MD, Shimazu T, Goetzman E, et al (2010) SIRT3 regulates mitochondrial fatty-acid oxidation by reversible enzyme deacetylation. Nature 464:121–125

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beecken WH, Beecken CA (2017) Fraud Examination Casebook with Documents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Baldacchino J, Vella R (2013) Mediterranean Art and Education: Navigating Local, Regional and Global Imaginaries Through the Lens of the Arts And Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Kawasaki T, Motoyoshi Y (2006) Experimental Constraints on the Decompressional P-T Paths of Rundvågshetta Granulites, Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica. In: Fütterer DK, Damaske D, Kleinschmidt G, et al (eds) Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 23–36

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

Andrew E (2015) Shape-Shifting Frog Discovered In Ecuador. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/skin-morphing-frog-discovered-ecuador/. 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 (1995) FDA Import Automation: Serious Management and Systems Development Problems Persist. 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

Duran PE (2010) Factors and prevention strategies to fight childhood obesity. 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2005) Arts, Briefly; Russian News Anchor Barred From Studio. New York Times B10

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

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