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

Kappeler, P. M. (2013). Evolution. Why male mammals are monogamous. Science 341, 469–470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levitan, D. R., and Ferrell, D. L. (2006). Selection on gamete recognition proteins depends on sex, density, and genotype frequency. Science 312, 267–269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ting, J. P. Y., Duncan, J. A., and Lei, Y. (2010). How the noninflammasome NLRs function in the innate immune system. Science 327, 286–290.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu, H.-X., Cao, L.-Z., Zhao, J.-Q., Li, Y.-D., and Wang, X.-Q. (2014). Extreme violation of local realism with a hyper-entangled four-photon-eight-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zelinger state. Sci. Rep. 4, 4476.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hewitt, A. (2016). Construction Claims & Responses. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zsolnai, L. ed. (2005). Spirituality and Ethics in Management. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Larche, M. J. (2015). “Inflammatory Arthritides,” in Essential Imaging in Rheumatology, ed. J. O’Neill (New York, NY: Springer), 105–146.

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

Davis, J. (2015). Researchers Discover An Island Made Almost Entirely From Fish Poo. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/reef-island-made-fish-poo/ (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 (2001). Student Financial Aid: Use of Middleware for Systems Integration Holds Promise. 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

Perry, E. M. (2010). Live and let live: Negotiating difference in a diverse urban neighborhood. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Linda Greenhouse; Karen, and Gary Gately contributed reporting for this article (2005). Supreme Court Roundup; BURDEN OF PROOF NOW ON PARENTS IN SCHOOL CASES. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kappeler, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Levitan and Ferrell, 2006; Kappeler, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Levitan and Ferrell, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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