How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cancer Genetics citation style

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

de Duve, C. (2010). The joy of discovery. Nature 467, S5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Accardi, A., and Miller, C. (2004). Secondary active transport mediated by a prokaryotic homologue of ClC Cl- channels. Nature 427, 803–807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lecavelier des Etangs, A., Vidal-Madjar, A., and Désert, J.-M. (2008). The origin of hydrogen around HD 209458b. Nature 456, E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Valverde, F., Mouradov, A., Soppe, W., Ravenscroft, D., Samach, A., and Coupland, G. (2004). Photoreceptor regulation of CONSTANS protein in photoperiodic flowering. Science 303, 1003–1006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowlinson, M. (2010). A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Phillips-Wren, G., Ichalkaranje, N., and Jain, L. C. eds. (2008). Intelligent Decision Making: An AI-Based Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Smyrnakis, M., and Galla, T. (2015). “Decentralized Optimisation of Resource Allocation in Disaster Management,” in City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach, eds. J. Preston, J. M. Binner, L. Branicki, T. Galla, N. Jones, J. King, et al. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 89–106.

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 Cancer Genetics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014). Amazing Animation Compares The Mass Of Various Objects In The Solar System. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-animation-compares-mass-various-objects-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 (1990). Air Pollution: EPA Needs More Data From FHwA on Changes to Highway Projects. 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

Vargas, A. R. (2010). Implementing modern geographic technology in the trucking industry: A case study. 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

Barry, E., and Kishkovsky, S. (2011). For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Duve, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Accardi and Miller, 2004; de Duve, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Accardi and Miller, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Valverde et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cancer Genetics
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology