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

Sohn, E. (2014). Animal models: Dogged pursuit. Nature 515, S172-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nienborg, H., and Cumming, B. G. (2009). Decision-related activity in sensory neurons reflects more than a neuron’s causal effect. Nature 459, 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cymes, G. D., Ni, Y., and Grosman, C. (2005). Probing ion-channel pores one proton at a time. Nature 438, 975–980.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Krivanek, O. L., Chisholm, M. F., Nicolosi, V., Pennycook, T. J., Corbin, G. J., Dellby, N., et al. (2010). Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy. Nature 464, 571–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll, C., Antti Pirnes, and Withers LLP (2009). From Innovation to Cash Flows. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Altmann, J., Neumann, D., and Fahringer, T. eds. (2008). Grid Economics and Business Models: 5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Katz, T. R. (2016). “Safety, Efficacy and Predictability of SAT,” in Complications in Corneal Laser Surgery, eds. S. J. Linke and T. Katz (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 23–30.

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

Luntz, S. (2015). Venus May Have Had Oceans Of Carbon Dioxide. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/venus-may-have-had-oceans-carbon-dioxide/ (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 (1988). [Comments on Panama Canal Revolving Fund Act]. 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

Gaudet, C. J. (2013). A General Approach to the Direct Detection of Dark Matter. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Palmer, E., and Otis, J. (2017). Tradition of Helping Neediest Cases Inspires Readers to Give Back. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sohn, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nienborg and Cumming, 2009; Sohn, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Nienborg and Cumming, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Krivanek et al., 2010)

About the journal

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