How to format your references using the Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Webster, R. G. (2001). Virology. A molecular whodunit. Science 293, 1773–1775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tong, F., and Engel, S. A. (2001). Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation. Nature 411, 195–199.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubal, D. P., Holze, R., and Gomez-Romero, P. (2014). Development of hybrid materials based on sponge supported reduced graphene oxide and transition metal hydroxides for hybrid energy storage devices. Sci. Rep. 4, 7349.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Breitburg, D., Levin, L. A., Oschlies, A., Grégoire, M., Chavez, F. P., Conley, D. J., et al. (2018). Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters. Science 359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Selyanin, M. A., Boykov, P. Y., Khabarov, V. N., and Polyak, F. (2015). Hyaluronic Acid. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Karasulu, B. (2013). Performance Evaluation Software: Moving Object Detection and Tracking in Videos., ed. S. Korukoglu. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hüsig, S. (2011). “The CAI-NPD-Systems Maturity Model as Forecasting Method: From Closed CAI 1.0 to Holistic CAI 2.0 Solutions,” in Building Innovation Pipelines through Computer-Aided Innovation: 4th IFIP WG 5.4 Working Conference, CAI 2011, Strasbourg, France, June 30 – July 1, 2011. Proceedings, eds. D. Cavallucci, R. de Guio, and G. Cascini (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 29–42.

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 Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Burning All Our Fossil Fuels Will Scorch The Earth And Obliterate The Arctic. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/burning-all-our-fossil-fuels-will-scorch-earth-and-obliterate-arctic/ (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

Government Accountability Office (1990). Federal Communications Commission: Strategic Focus Needed to Improve Information Resources Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ghafoori, E. (2014). Wavelet transform and neural network. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Powell, M. (2017). Warriors Unleash Tornado of Talent, Turning the Finals Into a Breeze. New York Times, B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Webster, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Tong and Engel, 2001; Webster, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Tong and Engel, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Breitburg et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)