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

Kemp, M. (2003). Science in culture: A mechanical mind. Nature 421, 214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knepper, M. A., and Agre, P. (2004). Structural biology. The atomic architecture of a gas channel. Science 305, 1573–1574.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, F., Li, J., and Wilson, R. J. S. (2014). A tree-ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium. Sci. Rep. 4, 6739.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

O’Brien, C. A., Pollett, A., Gallinger, S., and Dick, J. E. (2007). A human colon cancer cell capable of initiating tumour growth in immunodeficient mice. Nature 445, 106–110.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dijksterhuis, G. B. (2008). Multivariate Data Analysis in Sensory and Consumer Science. Trumbull, Connecticut, USA: Food & Nutrition Press, Inc.

An edited book

Budd, A. (2009). CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions., Second Edition, eds. S. Collison and C. Moll. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Illibauer, C., Ziebermayr, T., and Geist, V. (2016). “Towards Rigid Actor Assignment in Dynamic Workflows,” in Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering: 4th International Conference, ERP Future 2015 - Research, Munich, Germany, November 16-17, 2015, Revised Papers, eds. M. Felderer, F. Piazolo, W. Ortner, L. Brehm, and H.-J. Hof (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 62–69.

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). Scientists Solve Decades-Old Lunar Mystery. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/man-moon-caused-volcanic-activity-not-asteroid-impact/ (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 (1999). Inspectors General: Information on Resources and Selected Accomplishments of Five Inspectors Generals. 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

Sutton, D. L. (2010). Preparing instrumental teachers: A resource for volunteer, lay music teachers in Salvation Army churches. 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

Kelly, M. (1992). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton, in South Carolina, Shows He Is a Threat in the South. New York Times, 130.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kemp, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kemp, 2003; Knepper and Agre, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Knepper and Agre, 2004)
Three or more authors: (O’Brien et al., 2007)

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)