How to format your references using the Frontiers in Crop Science and Horticulture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Crop Science and Horticulture. 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

Mayr, E. (2004). Happy birthday: 80 years of watching the evolutionary scenery. Science 305, 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan, H., and Marmorstein, R. (2013). Biochemistry. Red wine, toast of the town (again). Science 339, 1156–1157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Betrouche, M., Maamache, M., and Choi, J. R. (2013). Novel characteristics of energy spectrum for 3D Dirac oscillator analyzed via Lorentz covariant deformed algebra. Sci. Rep. 3, 3221.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dall’Osso, F., Dominey-Howes, D., Moore, C., Summerhayes, S., and Withycombe, G. (2014). The exposure of Sydney (Australia) to earthquake-generated tsunamis, storms and sea level rise: a probabilistic multi-hazard approach. Sci. Rep. 4, 7401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarisky, D. (2012). Scriptural Interpretation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Seli, E., and Agarwal, A. eds. (2012). Fertility Preservation: Emerging Technologies and Clinical Applications. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sekiya, F., and Sugimoto, A. (2012). “Discrete Polynomial Curve Fitting to Noisy Data,” in Combinatorial Image Analaysis: 15th International Workshop, IWCIA 2012, Austin, TX, USA, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, eds. R. P. Barneva, V. E. Brimkov, and J. K. Aggarwal (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 59–74.

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 Crop Science and Horticulture.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Carnivores In Captivity: A Question Of Motive And Ethics. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/carnivores-captivity-question-motive-and-ethics/ (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 (1999). Mass Transit: “Mobility Improvements” Is One of Many Factors Used to Evaluate Mass Transit 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

Brient, R. (2009). Performance considerations for Philippe Gaubert’s “Madrigal.” 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

Qiu, L. (2017). Democrats Are Unified, but Not Always Accurate, on Health Bill Attacks. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mayr, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mayr, 2004; Yuan and Marmorstein, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yuan and Marmorstein, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dall’Osso et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Crop Science and Horticulture
Abbreviation	Front. Plant Sci.
ISSN (online)	1664-462X
Scope	Plant Science