How to format your references using the F1000Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for F1000Research. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

McFall-Ngai M. Adaptive immunity: care for the community. Nature. 2007 Jan 11;445(7124):153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perner J, Ruffman T. Psychology. Infants’ insight into the mind: how deep? Science. 2005 Apr 8;308(5719):214–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moses MJ, Fettinger JC, Eichhorn BW. Interpenetrating As20 fullerene and Ni12 icosahedra in the onion-skin [As@Ni12@As20]3- ion. Science. 2003 May 2;300(5620):778–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vassylyev DG, Vassylyeva MN, Zhang J, Palangat M, Artsimovitch I, Landick R. Structural basis for substrate loading in bacterial RNA polymerase. Nature. 2007 Jul 12;448(7150):163–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Medhurst D. A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Abraham A, Lloret Mauri J, Buford JF, Suzuki J, Thampi SM, editors. Advances in Computing and Communications: First International Conference, ACC 2011, Kochi, India, July 22-24, 2011. Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XXXVI, 712 p. 316 illus. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 191).

A chapter in an edited book

Patil M, Rodey P. Buck Converter in Closed Loop. In: Rodey P, editor. Control Systems for Power Electronics: A Practical Guide. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015. p. 29–37. (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology).

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 F1000Research.

Blog post

Andrew D. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Awesome Science Parody Of Taylor Swift Song. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/science-does-taylor-swift/

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

Government Accountability Office. Public Transportation: Preliminary Information on FTA’s Implementation of SAFETEA-LU Changes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jun. Report No.: GAO-06-910T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bunt E. The saxophone works of Karlheinz Stockhausen [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2010.

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

Walsh MW. Tiny Territory, Debt in Billions: Fears Spread to Virgin Islands. New York Times. 2017 Jun 25;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	F1000Research
Abbreviation	F1000Res.
ISSN (online)	2046-1402
Scope