How to format your references using the Forensic Science International Supplement Series citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forensic Science International Supplement Series. 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

[1]

T. Vicsek, A question of scale, Nature 411 (2001) 421.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Sahin, M. Sur, Genes, circuits, and precision therapies for autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders, Science 350 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Zhang, H. Lu, L. Huang, Calciphytoliths (calcium oxalate crystals) analysis for the identification of decayed tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.), Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Wang, Y. Ouyang, W.G. Somers, W. Chia, B. Lu, Polo inhibits progenitor self-renewal and regulates Numb asymmetry by phosphorylating Pon, Nature 449 (2007) 96–100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Ugeux, International Finance Regulation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

A. Özcan, N. Chaki, D. Nagamalai, eds., Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Second International Conference, WiMo 2010, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Angermann, Y.V. Shestopalov, V.V. Yatsyk, Eigenmodes of Linearised Problems of Scattering and Generation of Oscillations on Cubically Polarisable Layers, in: L. Beilina (Ed.), Inverse Problems and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 67–80.

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 Forensic Science International Supplement Series.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Ceres Asteroid May Have An ‘Ice Volcano’ And Other Signs Of Water, NASA Mission Reveals, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/ceres-asteroid-may-have-an-ice-volcano-and-other-signs-of-water-nasa-mission-reveals/ (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, Electronic Health Records: HHS Strategy to Address Information Exchange Challenges Lacks Specific Prioritized Actions and Milestones, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Washington, Counseling students ability to diagnose Asperger’s Syndrome, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

M.W. Walsh, A Footnote Explains a Dispute Over Treasury’s Bailout Figures, New York Times (2010) B4.

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	Forensic Science International Supplement Series
Abbreviation	Forens. Sci. Int. Suppl. Ser.
ISSN (print)	1875-1741
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine