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

Schmidt, D. (2013). Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Evolution of vertebrate transcriptional regulator binding. Science 342, 1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bezanilla, F., and Perozo, E. (2002). Structural biology. Force and voltage sensors in one structure. Science 298, 1562–1563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, J. S., Shimomura, K., and Kumar, V. (2008). Searching for genes underlying behavior: lessons from circadian rhythms. Science 322, 909–912.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Montarras, D., Morgan, J., Collins, C., Relaix, F., Zaffran, S., Cumano, A., et al. (2005). Direct isolation of satellite cells for skeletal muscle regeneration. Science 309, 2064–2067.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basener, W. F. (2006). Topology and Its Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gherbawy, Y., and Voigt, K. eds. (2010). Molecular Identification of Fungi. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

King, G. M., Churnside, A. B., and Perkins, T. T. (2013). “A Precision Force Microscope for Biophysics,” in MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, eds. G. A. Shaw, B. C. Prorok, and L. A. Starman (New York, NY: Springer), 31–36.

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

Taub, B. (2016). Scientists Have Found The Source Of Emotional Resilience In The Brain. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-have-found-source-emotional-brain/ (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 (2015). K-12 Education: Federal Funding for and Characteristics of Public Schools with Extended Learning Time. 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

Scharf, M. T. (2015). Comparing Student Cumulative Course Grades, Attrition, and Satisfaction in Traditional and Virtual Classroom Environments. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Vecsey, G. (2010). As Colts Rested, Jets Awoke. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmidt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bezanilla and Perozo, 2002; Schmidt, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bezanilla and Perozo, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Montarras et al., 2005)

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)