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:

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.

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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Kotok A (2008) Science careers. Business financing for your research. Science 319:1549
A journal article with 2 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Fraser J, Simkins BJ (2009) Enterprise Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 titleJournal of Fluorescence
AbbreviationJ. Fluoresc.
ISSN (print)1053-0509
ISSN (online)1573-4994
ScopeBiochemistry
Clinical Biochemistry
Spectroscopy
Clinical Psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Law
Sociology and Political Science

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