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]

zur Hausen H 2011 Science addict Nature 478 S12

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Knust E and Bossinger O 2002 Composition and formation of intercellular junctions in epithelial cells Science 298 1955–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Råberg L, Sim D and Read A F 2007 Disentangling genetic variation for resistance and tolerance to infectious diseases in animals Science 318 812–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Zachos J C, Arthur M A, Bralower T J and Spero H J 2002 Palaeoclimatology: tropical temperatures in greenhouse episodes Nature 419 897–8; discussion 898

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bobrow J, Fisher S, Mondragon-Gilmore J, Casson A, Orton P Z, Nathan H D, Jones J, Hays J, Kohn E, Christinson J, Sekeres K, Swovelin B, Di Pietro R, Crowder G, Spence M and Gilmore P 2009 CliffsNotes® CSET® (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Shtukenberg A 2007 Optically Anomalous Crystals ed Y O Punin and B Kahr (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zivot E 2009 Practical Issues in the Analysis of Univariate GARCH Models Handbook of Financial Time Series ed T Mikosch, J-P Kreiß, R A Davis and T G Andersen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 113–55

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

[1]

Taub B 2016 Noggin Brain Protein Could Be A More Effective Anti-Depressant Than Prozac 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 1979 The Air Force Should Cancel Plans To Acquire Two Computer Systems at Most Bases (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]

Gaete D O 2009 Investigation of intuitive eating after intervention measured by the Intuitive Eating Scale Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Gustines G G 2012 Where the Artists Have Superpowers New York Times BU1

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
Scope