How to format your references using the Journal of Foraminiferal Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Foraminiferal Research (JFR). 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

Sulloway, F. J., 2007, Psychology. Birth order and intelligence: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 316, p. 1711–1712.

A journal article with 2 authors

Szolnoki, A., and Perc, M., 2014, Defection and extortion as unexpected catalysts of unconditional cooperation in structured populations: Scientific reports, v. 4, p. 5496.

A journal article with 3 authors

Balachandran, S., Thomas, E., and Barber, G. N., 2004, A FADD-dependent innate immune mechanism in mammalian cells: Nature, v. 432, p. 401–405.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rong, H., Jones, R., Liu, A., Cohen, O., Hak, D., Fang, A., and Paniccia, M., 2005, A continuous-wave Raman silicon laser: Nature, v. 433, p. 725–728.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Conrick, C., IV, and Hanson, S., 2013, Vertical Option Spreads: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Prescott, T. J., Lepora, N. F., Mura, A., and Verschure, P. F. M. J., editors, 2012, Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: First International Conference, Living Machines 2012, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-12, 2012. Proceedings: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XVI, 405 p. 200 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Quentel-Touche, C., 2011, Charles V’s Visual Definition of the Queen’s Virtues, in Green, K. and Mews, C. (eds.), Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p. 53–80.

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 Foraminiferal Research.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017, NASA Don’t Know What This Hole On Mars Is, accessed October 30, 2018, at IFLScience at https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-dont-know-what-this-hole-on-mars-is/.

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, 1998, Schools and Libraries Corporation: Actions Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity Operations Before Committing Funds: U.S. Government Printing Office T-RCED-98-243.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Albers, C., 2015, One Academic Year Study of Experiences of One Cohort of Graduates from a Midwestern University’s Teacher Education Program: Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

RICHARD BERNSTEIN; Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting from Moscow for this article, and Judy Dempsey of The International Herald Tribune from Berlin, 2005, After Centuries of Enmity, Relations Between Poland and Russia Are as Bad as Ever: New York Times, p. 14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Sulloway, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Sulloway, 2007; Szolnoki & Perc, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Szolnoki & Perc, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rong et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Foraminiferal Research
ISSN (print)	0096-1191
ISSN (online)	1943-264X
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