How to format your references using the Journal of Fluorescence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of 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 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

Alberts B (2007) Obituary: Daniel Koshland (1920-2007). Nature 448:882

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanderschuren LJMJ, Everitt BJ (2004) Drug seeking becomes compulsive after prolonged cocaine self-administration. Science 305:1017–1019

A journal article with 3 authors

McCormick MI, Watson S-A, Munday PL (2013) Ocean acidification reverses competition for space as habitats degrade. Sci Rep 3:3280

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cox PM, Betts RA, Jones CD, et al (2000) Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model. Nature 408:184–187

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grimble MJ (2006) Robust Industrial Control Systems. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, England

An edited book

Mishra RS (2014) Friction Stir Welding and Processing: Science and Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Vafadar S, Abdollahzadeh Barfourosh A (2011) Towards Requirement Analysis Pattern for Learning Agents. In: Weyns D, Gleizes M-P (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XI: 11th International Workshop, AOSE 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 10-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 79–90

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 Journal of Fluorescence.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Electronic Skin Can Store Data and Deliver Drugs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/electronic-skin-can-store-data-and-deliver-drugs/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2009) Aviation Safety: Better Data and Targeted FAA Efforts Needed to Identify and Address Safety Issues of Small Air Cargo Carriers. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Park K-S (2006) Transcriptional Regulation In The Respiratory Epithelium During Development And Repair. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

B Y Robert Kelly;, who teaches at Bard College, is a Poet Whose, et al (1986) A LOVE AFFAIR WITH SILENCE. New York Times 721

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	Journal of Fluorescence
Abbreviation	J. Fluoresc.
ISSN (print)	1053-0509
ISSN (online)	1573-4994
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Spectroscopy Clinical Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Law Sociology and Political Science