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

Kotok A (2008) Science careers. Business financing for your research. Science 319:1549

A journal article with 2 authors

Frohlich MW, Chase MW (2007) After a dozen years of progress the origin of angiosperms is still a great mystery. Nature 450:1184–1189

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyron-Holtz EG, Ghosh MC, Rouault TA (2004) Mammalian tissue oxygen levels modulate iron-regulatory protein activities in vivo. Science 306:2087–2090

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sorefan K, Girin T, Liljegren SJ, et al (2009) A regulated auxin minimum is required for seed dispersal in Arabidopsis. Nature 459:583–586

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser J, Simkins BJ (2009) Enterprise Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Drugman T, Dutoit T (2013) Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: 6th International Conference, NOLISP 2013, Mons, Belgium, June 19-21, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Zeynalova MH, Rustamov RB, Salahova SE (2009) Advanced Space Technology for Oil Spill Detection. In: Olla P (ed) Space Technologies for the Benefit of Human Society and Earth. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 99–120

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

Andrew E (2013) Gene Therapy Provides Significant Antiviral Results Against HIV. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-therapy-provides-significant-antiviral-results-against-hiv/. 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 (2012) Commercial Space Launch Act: Preliminary Information on Issues to Consider for Reauthorization. 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

Bristow LW (2009) There is an old woman: The final stage of individuation. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Court Rules Coach’s Violations Are Not a Form of Free Speech. New York Times D6

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