How to format your references using the Methods and Applications in Fluorescence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Methods and Applications in Fluorescence. 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

[1]

Boebinger G S 2009 Physics. An abnormal normal state Science 323 590–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bradford L and O’Tierney P 2001 Three-person rule was not set by Nobel himself Nature 411 413

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Milward G C, Calderón M J and Littlewood P B 2005 Electronically soft phases in manganites Nature 433 607–10

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Savina M R, Davis A M, Tripa C E, Pellin M J, Gallino R, Lewis R S and Amari S 2004 Extinct technetium in silicon carbide stardust grains: implications for stellar nucleosynthesis Science 303 649–52

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ma A D, Roberts H R and Escobar M A 2012 Hemophilia and Hemostasis (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Ismail M and González D R D E L 2006 Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Navratil G and Grum E 2007 What makes Location-Based Services fail? Location Based Services and TeleCartography Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography ed G Gartner, W Cartwright and M P Peterson (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 59–72

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 Methods and Applications in Fluorescence.

Blog post

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Andrew E 2015 Scientists Accidentally Produce An Entirely New Type Of Glass IFLScience

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 1996 Follow-Up on Contracting Issues at Denver International Airport (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Smith M P 2009 De la página a la pantalla: Memoria de la Guerra Civil española en la narrativa contemporánea Doctoral dissertation (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona)

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]

Chira S 2017 Well, What Should Hillary Clinton Do? New York Times SR4

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	Methods and Applications in Fluorescence
Abbreviation	Methods Appl. Fluoresc.
ISSN (online)	2050-6120
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