How to format your references using the Forensic Science Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forensic Science Review. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
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Kondrashov F: Russia’s crackdowns are jeopardizing its science; Nature 523:383; 2015.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Halloran ME, Longini IM Jr: Public health. Community studies for vaccinating schoolchildren against influenza; Science 311:615; 2006.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Cordier P, Amodeo J, Carrez P: Modelling the rheology of MgO under Earth’s mantle pressure, temperature and strain rates; Nature 481:177; 2012.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
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Mukamel R, Gelbard H, Arieli A, Hasson U, Fried I, Malach R: Coupling between neuronal firing, field potentials, and FMRI in human auditory cortex; Science 309:951; 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Ndjountche T: Digital Electronics 3; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.
An edited book
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Treese SA, Pujadó PR, Jones DSJ, editors: Handbook of Petroleum Processing, 2nd ed. 2015.; Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
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Nussbaum L, Neyron P, Richard O: On Robust Covert Channels Inside DNS; In Gritzalis D, Lopez J (Eds): Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, SEC 2009, Pafos, Cyprus, May 18–20, 2009. Proceedings; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

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 Review.

Blog post
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Andrew E: ASU Origins Project Features The Great Debate of Parallel Realities; IFLScience; IFLScience; 2014.; https://www.iflscience.com/physics/asu-origins-project-features-great-debate-parallel-realities/ (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
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Government Accountability Office: Sale of Magnetic Data Tapes Previously Used by the Government Presents a Low Security Risk; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Sep; Report No.: GAO-07-1233R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Heyen C: Two predictors of smoking behaviors in the LGBTQ population: Anxiety and internalized homophobia [Doctoral dissertation]; [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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
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Qiu L: On What He Really Said, and Whom He Is Blaming for It; New York Times; 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3,4].
This sentence cites four references [4–6,8].

About the journal

Full journal titleForensic Science Review
ISSN (print)1042-7201
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