How to format your references using the Fractal and Fractional citation style

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

Collins, D. Misadventures in the Burgess Shale. Nature 2009, 460, 952–953.

A journal article with 2 authors

Houghton, M.; Abrignani, S. Prospects for a Vaccine against the Hepatitis C Virus. Nature 2005, 436, 961–966.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halter, W.E.; Pettke, T.; Heinrich, C.A. The Origin of Cu/Au Ratios in Porphyry-Type Ore Deposits. Science 2002, 296, 1844–1846.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bleul, C.C.; Corbeaux, T.; Reuter, A.; Fisch, P.; Mönting, J.S.; Boehm, T. Formation of a Functional Thymus Initiated by a Postnatal Epithelial Progenitor Cell. Nature 2006, 441, 992–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rubin, A.B. Fundamentals of Biophysics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781118842768.

An edited book

Cerebral Vasospasm: Neurovascular Events After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; Zuccarello, M., Clark, J.F., Pyne-Geithman, G., Andaluz, N., Hartings, J.A., Adeoye, O.M., Eds.; Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement; Springer: Vienna, 2013; Vol. 115; ISBN 9783709111918.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar, H.; Rahman, A. Adding a GUI. In Rapid Game Development Using Cocos2d-JS: An end-to-end guide to 2D game development using JavaScript; Rahman, A., Ed.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2016; pp. 49–58 ISBN 9781484225523.

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 Fractal and Fractional.

Blog post

Davis, J. Evidence For The Earliest Oxygen-Producing Organisms Found In 3.4-BILLION-Year-Old Rocks Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/evidence-earliest-oxygen-producing-organisms-found-34-billion-year-old-rocks/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Information Technology: Department of Labor Could Further Facilitate Modernization of States’ Unemployment Insurance Systems; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jurka, J. The Importance of Being a Complement: CED Effects Revisited. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 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

Creswell, J.; de la MERCED, M.J. Activist Investor Seeks Seat at Procter & Gamble. New York Times 2017, B1.

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	Fractal and Fractional
Abbreviation	Fractal Fract.
ISSN (online)	2504-3110
Scope