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

Tsapatsis, M. (2011). Materials science. Toward high-throughput zeolite membranes. Science 334, 767–768.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cermeño, P., and Falkowski, P. G. (2009). Controls on diatom biogeography in the ocean. Science 325, 1539–1541.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jones, P. D., Osborn, T. J., and Briffa, K. R. (2001). The evolution of climate over the last millennium. Science 292, 662–667.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Berthier, L., Biroli, G., Bouchaud, J.-P., Cipelletti, L., El Masri, D., L’Hôte, D., et al. (2005). Direct experimental evidence of a growing length scale accompanying the glass transition. Science 310, 1797–1800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valiev, R. Z., Zhilyaev, A. P., and Langdon, T. G. (2013). Bulk Nanostructured Materials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Reichenbächer, M. (2012). Challenges in Molecular Structure Determination., ed. J. Popp. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pickel, G., and Gladkich, A. (2012). “Religious Social Capital in Europe Connections between Religiosity and Civil Society,” in Transformations of Religiosity: Religion and Religiosity in Eastern Europe 1989 – 2010, eds. G. Pickel and K. Sammet (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften), 69–94.

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). The Search For ET Has Been Going On For Years: So What Do We Know So Far? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/search-et-has-been-going-years-so-what-do-we-know-so-far/ (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 (1980). The Near-Term Potential of Manufacturing in Space. 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

Pundir, B. (2011). Surface pressure fluctuations due to an impinging underexpanded supersonic jet. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Sisario, B. (2017). Ariana Grande To Perform Benefit. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tsapatsis, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cermeño and Falkowski, 2009; Tsapatsis, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cermeño and Falkowski, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Berthier et al., 2005)

About the journal

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