How to format your references using the Journal of the Franklin Institute citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Franklin Institute. 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]

S.L. Castle, Organic synthesis: Better chemistry through radicals, Nature 516 (2014) 332–333.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Sunami, K. Kurokawa, Recession Watch: No time for nationalism, Nature 457 (2009) 960–961.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Pertea, S.L. Salzberg, M.J. Gardner, Finding genes in Plasmodium falciparum, Nature 404 (2000) 34; discussion 34-5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O. Venter, W.F. Laurance, T. Iwamura, K.A. Wilson, R.A. Fuller, H.P. Possingham, Harnessing carbon payments to protect biodiversity, Science 326 (2009) 1368.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Tardu, Statistical Approach to Wall Turbulence, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Heshmati, ed., Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa: A Multi-faceted Economic Approach, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Liu, K. Pollard, Biobanking for Personalized Medicine, in: F. Karimi-Busheri (Ed.), Biobanking in the 21st Century, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 55–68.

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 the Franklin Institute.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Meet The Mice Whose Brains Are Part Human, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/mice-part-human-brains-are-smarter-their-peers/ (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, Commercial Motor Carriers: More Could Be Done to Determine Impact of Excessive Loading and Unloading Wait Times on Hours of Service Violations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.J. Crawford, Empire’s experts: The politics of knowledge in Spain’s royal monopoly of quina (1751–1808), Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2009.

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]

M. Kimmelman, Brexit Clouds New Subway’s Promise, New York Times (2017) A1.

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 the Franklin Institute
Abbreviation	J. Franklin Inst.
ISSN (print)	0016-0032
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Signal Processing Control and Systems Engineering Applied Mathematics