How to format your references using the Frontiers in Built Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Built Environment. 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

McKinnon, W. B. (2012). Planetary science. The strangest terrestrial planet. Science 336, 162–163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grimmer, M. R., and Costello, J. F. (2016). Cancer: Oncogene brought into the loop. Nature 529, 34–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berkhout, B., Das, A. T., and Beerens, N. (2001). HIV-1 RNA editing, hypermutation, and error-prone reverse transcription. Science 292, 7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hoege, C., Pfander, B., Moldovan, G.-L., Pyrowolakis, G., and Jentsch, S. (2002). RAD6-dependent DNA repair is linked to modification of PCNA by ubiquitin and SUMO. Nature 419, 135–141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Teodorescu, P. P., Kecs, W. W., and Toma, A. (2013). Distribution Theory. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Jadvar, H. (2005). Clinical PET and PET/CT., ed. J. A. Parker. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, R. C. (2014). “Novel Biomarkers for Cholangiocarcinoma,” in Biliary Tract and Gallbladder Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach, eds. J. M. Herman, T. M. Pawlik, and C. R. Thomas Jr. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 67–82.

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 Built Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Scientists Gain New Insight Into The Cells That Harbor Hidden HIV. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-gain-new-insight-cells-harbor-hidden-hiv/ (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 (2000). Final Certification of TAP Fund. 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

Duley, L. A. (2012). A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Women Remaining in Abusive Relationships. 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

Caschetta, M. B. (2011). What Wasn’t Passed On. New York Times, ST6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McKinnon, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (McKinnon, 2012; Grimmer and Costello, 2016).

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

Two authors: (Grimmer and Costello, 2016)
Three or more authors: (Hoege et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Built Environment
Abbreviation	Front. Built Environ.
ISSN (online)	2297-3362
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