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

Socha, J. J. (2014). Applied Physics. Of snakes and robots. Science 346, 160–161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boomsma, J. J., and Pamilo, P. (2010). Retrospective. Rossiter H. Crozier (1943-2009). Science 327, 45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, C.-W., Ka, S.-M., and Chen, A. (2014). Robust image registration of biological microscopic images. Sci. Rep. 4, 6050.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Petukhova, L., Duvic, M., Hordinsky, M., Norris, D., Price, V., Shimomura, Y., et al. (2010). Genome-wide association study in alopecia areata implicates both innate and adaptive immunity. Nature 466, 113–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, M. B. (2014). Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods: Smith/Compendium. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Golen, K. ed. (2010). The Rho GTPases in Cancer. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kitto, K., Bruza, P., and Sitbon, L. (2009). “Generalising Unitary Time Evolution,” in Quantum Interaction: Third International Symposium, QI 2009, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 25-27, 2009. Proceedings, eds. P. Bruza, D. Sofge, W. Lawless, K. van Rijsbergen, and M. Klusch (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 17–28.

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

Davis, J. (2017). Bacteria May Be Altering Your Brain To Suppress Your Appetite When You’re Sick. IFLScience.

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 (1999). Y2K Computing Challenge: Day One Planning and Operations Guide. 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

Yoon, J. (2012). Jan Radzynski’s Canto (1981): An Introductory View of Its Genre, Style, and Form, with Suggestions for Performance. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

Koblin, J. (2016). ‘Today’ Host Discussing NBC Exit After Lewd Tape. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Socha, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Boomsma and Pamilo, 2010; Socha, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Boomsma and Pamilo, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Petukhova et al., 2010)

About the journal

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