How to format your references using the Journal of Foraminiferal Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Foraminiferal Research (JFR). 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

Banks, M., 2007, Seeking a PhD abroad: Nature, v. 445, p. 680.

A journal article with 2 authors

Park, H.-J., and Friston, K., 2013, Structural and functional brain networks: from connections to cognition: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 342, p. 1238411.

A journal article with 3 authors

Azuma, S., Katayama, I., and Nakakuki, T., 2014, Rheological decoupling at the Moho and implication to Venusian tectonics: Scientific reports, v. 4, p. 4403.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wild, P., Farhan, H., McEwan, D. G., Wagner, S., Rogov, V. V., Brady, N. R., Richter, B., Korac, J., Waidmann, O., Choudhary, C., Dötsch, V., Bumann, D., and Dikic, I., 2011, Phosphorylation of the autophagy receptor optineurin restricts Salmonella growth: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 333, p. 228–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, R. J., Groundwater, P. W., Todd, A., and Worsley, A. J., 2012, Antibacterial Agents: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Schuster, A., editor, 2008, Robust Intelligent Systems: Springer, London, XII, 299 p. 81 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Giovagnoli, A., Marzialetti, J., and Wynn, H. P., 2009, Bivariate Dependence Orderings for Unordered Categorical Variables, in Pronzato, L. and Zhigljavsky, A. (eds.), Optimal Design and Related Areas in Optimization and Statistics: Springer, New York, NY, p. 81–96.

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 Foraminiferal Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014, Giant Galaxy Expels Star Cluster, accessed October 30, 2018, at IFLScience at https://www.iflscience.com/space/giant-galaxy-expels-star-cluster/.

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, 2008, Transportation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Strengthened Planning to Guide Investments in Key Aviation and Surface Transportation Security Programs, but More Work Remains: U.S. Government Printing Office GAO-08-487T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hammamy, R., 2010, “Promoting responsible action in medical emergencies”: Determining the impact of a new University of Maryland alcohol protocol: Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Clarke, J., 2016, Resilient Golf Turf Faces Test at Olympics: New York Times, p. SP1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Banks, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Banks, 2007; Park & Friston, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Park & Friston, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wild et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Foraminiferal Research
ISSN (print)	0096-1191
ISSN (online)	1943-264X
Scope