How to format your references using the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

P. Ball, Arts: Reinventing Galileo, Nature 494 (2013) 428–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Katsir, A. Marmur, Rate of bubble coalescence following quasi-static approach: screening and neutralization of the electric double layer, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4266.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Long, D.Z. Jin, M.S. Fee, Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation, Nature 468 (2010) 394–399.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Urano, T. Saito, T. Tsukui, M. Fujita, T. Hosoi, M. Muramatsu, Y. Ouchi, S. Inoue, Efp targets 14-3-3 sigma for proteolysis and promotes breast tumour growth, Nature 417 (2002) 871–875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.V. Huzurbazar, Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data: Huzurbazar/Flowgraph Models, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

V. Casares-Giner, P. Manzoni, A. Pont, eds., NETWORKING 2011 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, PE-CRN, NC-Pro, WCNS, and SUNSET 2011, Held at NETWORKING 2011, Valencia, Spain, May 13, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Licato, S. Bringsjord, N.S. Govindarajulu, How Models of Creativity and Analogy Need to Answer the Tailorability Concern, in: T.R. Besold, M. Schorlemmer, A. Smaill (Eds.), Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines, Atlantis Press, Paris, 2015: pp. 93–107.

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 Fluorine Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, First Complete Mapping Of Human Proteome Discovers 193 New Proteins, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-complete-mapping-human-proteome-discovers-193-new-proteins/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal Research: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Management and Oversight of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.S. Kalavacherla, DFT study of the improved performance of oxygen reduction reaction on gold-copper alloy in a PEM fuel cell, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

[1]

L. Stack, J. Healy, They Shared Their Working Hours, and Their Dying Moments, New York Times (2015) A24.

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 Fluorine Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Fluor. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0022-1139
Scope	Biochemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Environmental Chemistry