How to format your references using the Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series. 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 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

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K.W. Dixon, Pollination and restoration, Science 325 (2009) 571–573.

A journal article with 2 authors

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A. Norvell, S.B. McMahon, Cell biology. Rise of the rival, Science 327 (2010) 964–965.

A journal article with 3 authors

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S. Otto, R.L.E. Furlan, J.K.M. Sanders, Selection and amplification of hosts from dynamic combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic disulfides, Science 297 (2002) 590–593.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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G.L. Cohen, J. Garcia, V. Purdie-Vaughns, N. Apfel, P. Brzustoski, Recursive processes in self-affirmation: intervening to close the minority achievement gap, Science 324 (2009) 400–403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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M.J. Alhabeeb, Mathematical Finance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

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K. Schmid, ed., Top Productivity through Software Reuse: 12th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2011, Pohang, South Korea, June 13-17, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

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J. Fang, M. Li, P. Shi, Mapping Flood Risk of the World, in: P. Shi, R. Kasperson (Eds.), World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 69–102.

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 Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series.

Blog post

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T. Hale, NASA Just Released 56 Of Their Technology Patents For Free Public Use, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-have-released-56-patents-their-technology-free-public-use/ (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

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Government Accountability Office, Revolving Funds: Additional Pricing and Performance Information for FAA and Treasury Funds Could Enhance Agency Decisions on Shared Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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G.L. Pryor, Effects of a balance-specific exercise program on blood pressure medication usage, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

J. Wagner, Collins, Nearing a Mets Milestone, Is Still Enjoying the Journey, New York Times (2017) D3.

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	Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series
Abbreviation	Forensic Sci. Int. Genet. Suppl. Ser.
ISSN (print)	1875-1768
Scope	Genetics Pathology and Forensic Medicine