How to format your references using the Forensic Science Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forensic Science Review. 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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Stirling A: Keep it complex; Nature 468:1029; 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Kollatschny W, Zetzl M: Broad-line active galactic nuclei rotate faster than narrow-line ones; Nature 470:366; 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Kitajima TS, Kawashima SA, Watanabe Y: The conserved kinetochore protein shugoshin protects centromeric cohesion during meiosis; Nature 427:510; 2004.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

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Odkhuu D, Shin D, Ruoff RS, Park N: Conversion of multilayer graphene into continuous ultrathin sp³-bonded carbon films on metal surfaces; Sci Rep 3:3276; 2013.

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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Wong BP, Mittal A, Cao Y, Starr G: Nano-CMOS Circuit and Physical Design; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

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Sumathi S: Fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems; Esakkirajan S (Ed); Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

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Chen D, El-Hacha R: The Use of Appropriate Finite Element Modelling Techniques for the Idealization of a Novel Hybrid Multi-girder Bridge Deck System; In Caner A, Gülkan P, Mahmoud K (Eds): Developments in International Bridge Engineering: Selected Papers from Istanbul Bridge Conference 2014; Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

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 Review.

Blog post

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Andrew E: How The Science Of Human Behavior Is Beginning To Reshape The US Government; IFLScience; IFLScience; 2015.; https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-science-human-behavior-beginning-reshape-us-government/ (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: Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Nov; Report No.: GAO-11-21.

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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Swinford RR: Adapted dance - connecting mind, body and soul [Doctoral dissertation]; [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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

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St. John Kelly E: Why We Play Semipro; New York Times; 1997.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3,4].
This sentence cites four references [4,5,7,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Forensic Science Review
ISSN (print)	1042-7201
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