How to format your references using the Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics citation style

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

Casey, W. H. (2002). Geochemistry. The fate of chlorine in soils. Science 295, 985–986.

A journal article with 2 authors

Russell, E. V., and Israeloff, N. E. (2000). Direct observation of molecular cooperativity near the glass transition. Nature 408, 695–698.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altabet, M. A., Higginson, M. J., and Murray, D. W. (2002). The effect of millennial-scale changes in Arabian Sea denitrification on atmospheric CO2. Nature 415, 159–162.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Koelle, K., Cobey, S., Grenfell, B., and Pascual, M. (2006). Epochal evolution shapes the phylodynamics of interpandemic influenza A (H3N2) in humans. Science 314, 1898–1903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bucci, D. (2017). Analog Electronics for Measuring Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vieira, B. C., Salgado, A. A. R., and Santos, L. J. C. eds. (2015). Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Möser, M., and Barros, J. L. (2009). “Aislamiento elástico,” in Ingeniería Acústica: Teoría y Aplicaciones, ed. J. L. Barros (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 141–166.

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 Population Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Where Have The Stars Gone? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/missing-stars-confound-globular-cluster-formation-theories/ (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 (1993). Mass Transit: FTA’s Projections Could Better Reflect State and Local Needs. 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

Krishna, S. (2017). Pediatric Pal. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Isaac, M. (2017). SoftBank of Japan Is Said to Be Weighing an Investment in Uber. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Casey, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Russell and Israeloff, 2000; Casey, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Russell and Israeloff, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Koelle et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)