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

Nowak, M. A. (2008). Generosity: A winner’s advice. Nature 456, 579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padoa-Schioppa, C., and Assad, J. A. (2006). Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature 441, 223–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heiling, A. M., Herberstein, M. E., and Chittka, L. (2003). Pollinator attraction: Crab-spiders manipulate flower signals. Nature 421, 334.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jordan, I. K., Kondrashov, F. A., Adzhubei, I. A., Wolf, Y. I., Koonin, E. V., Kondrashov, A. S., et al. (2005). A universal trend of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution. Nature 433, 633–638.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thompson, G. R. (2011). Reading the American Novel 1865-1914. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Terano, T., Kita, H., Deguchi, H., and Kijima, K. eds. (2007). Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems IV: Post-Proceedings of The AESCS International Workshop 2005. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, S., Thompson, D., and Hansen, J. K. (2013). “Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr),” in Forest Tree Breeding in Europe: Current State-of-the-Art and Perspectives Managing Forest Ecosystems., ed. L. E. Pâques (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 177–227.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016). More Bright Galaxies Discovered In The Early Universe. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/more-bright-galaxies-discovered-in-the-early-universe/ [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). Airport Financing: Smaller Airports Face Future Funding Shortfalls. 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

Plaza, J. L. (2012). The Latina/o migrant college student experience.

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

Oestreich, J. R. (2016). A Zeffirelli Production, Excesses and All. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nowak, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Padoa-Schioppa and Assad, 2006; Nowak, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Padoa-Schioppa and Assad, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Jordan et al., 2005)

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)

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