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]

P.J. Keller, Imaging morphogenesis: technological advances and biological insights, Science 340 (2013) 1234168.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.J. Hawker, K.L. Wooley, The convergence of synthetic organic and polymer chemistries, Science 309 (2005) 1200–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.B. Kaner, J.J. Gilman, S.H. Tolbert, Materials science. Designing superhard materials, Science 308 (2005) 1268–1269.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Rosales, Z. Nie, V. Kapoor, R. Casellas Jr, J.R. Knutson, D. Levens, Partition of Myc into immobile vs. mobile complexes within nuclei, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1953.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.F. Tolin, B.L. Worden, B.M. Wootton, C.M. Gilliam, CBT for Hoarding Disorder, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

H. Emmons, Flow Shop Scheduling: Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.P. Sarachik, Magnetic Avalanches in Molecular Magnets, in: J. Bartolomé, F. Luis, J.F. Fernández (Eds.), Molecular Magnets: Physics and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 113–127.

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]

E. Andrew, A ‘Sixth Sense’ For Humidity Helps Insects Stay Out Of Climatic Trouble, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sixth-sense-humidity-helps-insects-stay-out-climatic-trouble/ (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, First Look at Senior Executive Service Performance Awards/NASA, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Zhang, Studies of Zeolite-Based Artificial Photosynthetic Systems, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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]

J. Poniewozik, The Eve of Destruction, as Seen on TV, New York Times (2017) C1.

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