How to format your references using the Frontiers in Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology. 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

Smaglik, P. (2002). Career prospects in Europe. Nature 419, 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kouwenhoven, L. P., and Venema, L. C. (2000). Heat flow through nanobridges. Nature 404, 943–944.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mariani, F. V., Ahn, C. P., and Martin, G. R. (2008). Genetic evidence that FGFs have an instructive role in limb proximal-distal patterning. Nature 453, 401–405.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Luthcke, S. B., Zwally, H. J., Abdalati, W., Rowlands, D. D., Ray, R. D., Nerem, R. S., et al. (2006). Recent Greenland ice mass loss by drainage system from satellite gravity observations. Science 314, 1286–1289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arthur D. Little, Inc. (2010). Making EHS an Integral Part of Process Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rodrigues, J. F., Seregin, G., and Urbano, J. M. eds. (2005). Trends in Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Bivand, R. S., Pebesma, E., and Gómez-Rubio, V. (2013). “Further Methods for Handling Spatial Data,” in Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, eds. E. Pebesma and V. Gómez-Rubio (New York, NY: Springer), 127–150.

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 Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Electric Aircraft – The Future Of Aviation Or Just Wishful Thinking? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/electric-aircraft-future-aviation-or-just-wishful-thinking/ (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 (2004). Business Systems Modernization: IRS’s Fiscal Year 2004 Expenditure Plan. 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

Marjanovic, S. Y. (2016). The Role of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein in Regulating T Cell Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms and Implications for Autoimmunity in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Gustines, G. G. (2011). Restarting Comics’ Clock Is Issue No. 1. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kouwenhoven and Venema, 2000; Smaglik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kouwenhoven and Venema, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Luthcke et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
Abbreviation	Front. Microbiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-302X
Scope	Microbiology Microbiology (medical)