How to format your references using the Frontiers in Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics. 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

Eichinger, N. (2007). Getting in the frame. Nature 446, 104–105.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johansson, L. C., and Norberg, R. A. (2003). Delta-wing function of webbed feet gives hydrodynamic lift for swimming propulsion in birds. Nature 424, 65–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guilbaud, R., Butler, I. B., and Ellam, R. M. (2011). Abiotic pyrite formation produces a large Fe isotope fractionation. Science 332, 1548–1551.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bessell, P. R., Searle, K. R., Auty, H. K., Handel, I. G., Purse, B. V., and Bronsvoort, B. M. D. (2013). Epidemic potential of an emerging vector borne disease in a marginal environment: Schmallenberg in Scotland. Sci. Rep. 3, 1178.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donham, K. J., and Thelin, A. (2016). Agricultural Medicine. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fung, A. ed. (2016). Global Game Industries and Cultural Policy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Phipps, A. I., and Li, C. I. (2010). “Endogenous Hormones,” in Breast Cancer Epidemiology, ed. C. Li (New York, NY: Springer), 73–87.

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 Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016). New Dwarf Planet Discovered At The Edge Of The Solar System. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-dwarf-planet-discovered-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/ [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 (2013). Rail Safety: Preliminary Observations on Federal Rail Safety Oversight and Positive Train Control Implementation. 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

Takele, T. (2003). Confinement Mechanisms in Quantum Chromodynamics.

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

Lee, L. (2008). A Clean Desk, At Least For Starters. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eichinger, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Johansson and Norberg, 2003; Eichinger, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Johansson and Norberg, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bessell et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)