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]

J. Wright, Genetics: Unravelling complexity, Nature 508 (2014) S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

X.M. Yu, L. Luo, Neuroscience. dSarm-ing axon degeneration, Science 337 (2012) 418–419.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V.R. Murthy, W. van Westrenen, Y. Fei, Experimental evidence that potassium is a substantial radioactive heat source in planetary cores, Nature 423 (2003) 163–165.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.J. Harrison, S.B. Corley, E.C. Moylan, D.L. Alexander, R.W. Scotland, J.A. Langdale, Independent recruitment of a conserved developmental mechanism during leaf evolution, Nature 434 (2005) 509–514.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.-J. Hübschmann, Handbook of GC-MS, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J. Klekamp, Surgery of Spinal Tumors, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Becchi, German Legal Science: The Crisis of Natural Law Theory, the Historicisms, and “Conceptual Jurisprudence,” in: E. Pattaro, D. Canale, P. Grossi, H. Hofmann, P. Riley (Eds.), A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence: Vol. 9: A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Civil Law World, 1600-1900; Vol. 10: The Philosophers’ Philosophy of Law from the Seventeenth Century to Our Days, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 185–224.

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]

K. Hamilton, Bangladesh Is Building A Dirty And Expensive Coal Plant Next To The World’s Largest Mangrove Forest, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/bangladesh-is-building-a-dirty-and-expensive-coal-plant-next-to-the-worlds-largest-mangrove-forest/ (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, Comments on Federal Payments to the Adelanto School District, California, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Li, Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

G. Clooney, J. Prendergast, A. Kumar, Sudan’s Rape of Darfur, New York Times (2015) A27.

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