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]

D. Gershon, Structural genomics--from cottage industry to industrial revolution, Nature. 408 (2000) 273–274.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.C. de A. Moura, P.C. Lee, Capuchin stone tool use in Caatinga dry forest, Science. 306 (2004) 1909.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Goes, F.A. Capitanio, G. Morra, Evidence of lower-mantle slab penetration phases in plate motions, Nature. 451 (2008) 981–984.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O.T. Summerscales, F.G.N. Cloke, P.B. Hitchcock, J.C. Green, N. Hazari, Reductive cyclotrimerization of carbon monoxide to the deltate dianion by an organometallic uranium complex, Science. 311 (2006) 829–831.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Lalanne, Random Vibration, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

K. Golen, ed., The Rho GTPases in Cancer, Springer, New York, NY, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Einfalt, S. Michaelides, Quality control of precipitation data, in: S. Michaelides (Ed.), Precipitation: Advances in Measurement, Estimation and Prediction, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 101–126.

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]

J. Fang, Mummy CT Scans Show That Pharaohs Were Misdiagnosed, IFLScience. (2014).

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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Telecommunications Readiness Critical, Yet Overall Status Largely Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Keith, Engagement and Temporary Teams: Considerations for Value Engineering Study Teams and Facilitators, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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]

M. Kelly, M. Dowd, The Company He Keeps, New York Times. (1993) 620.

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

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