How to format your references using the Frontiers in Digital Humanities citation style

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

Coppens, P. (2008). Chemistry. A phase transition hidden in higher dimensions. Science 319, 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Di Franco, C., and Paternostro, M. (2013). A no-go result on the purification of quantum states. Sci. Rep. 3, 1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rasmussen, L. E. L., Riddle, H. S., and Krishnamurthy, V. (2002). Mellifluous matures to malodorous in musth. Nature 415, 975–976.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sussman, B. J., Townsend, D., Ivanov, M. Y., and Stolow, A. (2006). Dynamic stark control of photochemical processes. Science 314, 278–281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (1995). Guidelines for Safe Process Operations and Maintenance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Csurka, G., Kraus, M., Laramee, R. S., Richard, P., and Braz, J. eds. (2013). Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Application: 7th International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2012, Rome, Italy, February 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Othieno, H., and Awange, J. (2016). “Energy Resources in Northern Africa,” in Energy Resources in Africa: Distribution, Opportunities and Challenges, ed. J. Awange (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 193–222.

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 Digital Humanities.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Bats Navigate in 3D Using a Donut-Shaped Compass in Their Brain. IFLScience.

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 (2002). Highway Infrastructure: Preliminary Information on the Timely Completion of Highway Construction 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

Roubin, A. M. (2014). A resource manual of bullying intervention programs for parents, educators, and community officials in the Los Angeles area. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Rothenberg, B. (2017). An Upstart Relishes, and Rues, a Showcase. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coppens, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Coppens, 2008; Di Franco and Paternostro, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Di Franco and Paternostro, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sussman et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Digital Humanities
Abbreviation	Front. Digit. Humanit.
ISSN (online)	2297-2668
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