How to format your references using the F1000Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for F1000Research. 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 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

Frenking G. Another noble gas conquered. Nature. 2000 Aug 24;406(6798):836–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung ACM, Cramer P. Structural basis of RNA polymerase II backtracking, arrest and reactivation. Nature. 2011 Mar 10;471(7337):249–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berton O, Hahn CG, Thase ME. Are we getting closer to valid translational models for major depression? Science. 2012 Oct 5;338(6103):75–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dommett E, Coizet V, Blaha CD, Martindale J, Lefebvre V, Walton N, et al. How visual stimuli activate dopaminergic neurons at short latency. Science. 2005 Mar 4;307(5714):1476–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dujmović D, Androić B, Lukačević I. Composite Structures According to Eurocode 4. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2014.

An edited book

Tan KY, editor. Transdisciplinary Perioperative Care in Colorectal Surgery: An Integrative Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. VIII, 269 p. 73 illus., 62 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Nicolosi G, Korthals M. Narrative Strategies in Food Advertising. In: Coff C, Barling D, Korthals M, Nielsen T, editors. Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 63–78. (Korthals M, Thompson PB, editors. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics).

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 F1000Research.

Blog post

Evans K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. NASA Releases Incredible Images To Show How Earth Has Changed In Just 30 Years. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nasa-releases-incredible-images-to-show-how-earth-has-changed-in-just-30-years/

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. Efforts To Stop Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Coming From and Through Mexico and Central America. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Dec. Report No.: GGD-75-44.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crozier CF. A qualitative study of teacher job satisfaction in an evolutionary and mandated change environment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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

Tommasini A, Woolfe Z, da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM C, Allen D, Oestreich JR. A Buñuel Opera and, Oh, Those 100 Sheep. New York Times. 2016 Dec 7;AR12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	F1000Research
Abbreviation	F1000Res.
ISSN (online)	2046-1402
Scope