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

Shelton JD (2011) HIV/AIDS. ARVs as HIV prevention: a tough road to wide impact. Science 334:1645–1646

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomas PC, Robinson MS (2005) Seismic resurfacing by a single impact on the asteroid 433 Eros. Nature 436:366–369

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida N, Katamine S, Manuelidis L (2005) Reciprocal interference between specific CJD and scrapie agents in neural cell cultures. Science 310:493–496

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li Y, Jia Y-C, Cui K, et al (2005) Essential role of TRPC channels in the guidance of nerve growth cones by brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Nature 434:894–898

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hooper J, Zalewski A, Watanabe E (2013) Advanced Charting Techniques for High Probability Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hannah KJ (2006) Introduction to Nursing Informatics. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Stai E, Karyotis V, Papavassiliou S (2015) On the Impact of Network Evolution on NUM Resource Allocation Problems in Wireless Multihop Networks. In: Papavassiliou S, Ruehrup S (eds) Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks: 14th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2015, Athens, Greece, June 29 -- July 1, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 62–75

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 D (2016) 16 Ridiculous “Facts” About Animals You Should Really Stop Repeating. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/16-ridiculous-facts-about-animals-you-should-really-stop-repeating/. 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 (1993) Federal Research: Minor Changes Would Further Improve New NSF Indirect Cost Guidance. 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

Tabano JG (2013) How Former Division I Student-Athletes Experienced Their Dual Undergraduate Roles: The Internal Competition for an Identity. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Feeney K (2009) Eating at the Mega-Market. New York Times NJ10

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

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