How to format your references using the Journal of Fluorescence citation style

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

Cummins PR (2007) The potential for giant tsunamigenic earthquakes in the northern Bay of Bengal. Nature 449:75–78

A journal article with 2 authors

van der Goes van Naters W, Carlson JR (2006) Insects as chemosensors of humans and crops. Nature 444:302–307

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoener TW, Spiller DA, Losos JB (2001) Predators increase the risk of catastrophic extinction of prey populations. Nature 412:183–186

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wei X, Wang S, Chen Q, Peng L (2014) Breakdown of Richardson’s law in electron emission from individual self-Joule-heated carbon nanotubes. Sci Rep 4:5102

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pearce R, Barnes S (2006) Raising Venture Capital. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Spirakis PG, Serna M (2013) Algorithms and Complexity: 8th International Conference, CIAC 2013, Barcelona, Spain, May 22-24, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gustafson SJ, Sigal IM (2011) Uncertainty Principle and Stability of Atoms and Molecules. In: Sigal IM (ed) Mathematical Concepts of Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–45

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 Journal of Fluorescence.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) Planetary Harmony Keeps The Trappist-1 System Intact. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2005) Transportation Security Administration: More Clarity on the Authority of Federal Security Directors Is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Winchester CL (2013) Alleghanian plutonism in the eastern Blue Ridge province of the southern Appalachians: Origin and tectonic setting. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) The Space Between Us. New York Times C7

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	Journal of Fluorescence
Abbreviation	J. Fluoresc.
ISSN (print)	1053-0509
ISSN (online)	1573-4994
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Spectroscopy Clinical Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Law Sociology and Political Science