How to format your references using the Frontiers in Genetic Architecture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Genetic Architecture. 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

Wunsch, C. (2000). Moon, tides and climate. Nature 405, 743–744.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckley, S. A., and Evershed, R. P. (2001). Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman mummies. Nature 413, 837–841.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fan, H. C., Fu, G. K., and Fodor, S. P. A. (2015). Expression profiling. Combinatorial labeling of single cells for gene expression cytometry. Science 347, 1258367.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Idnurm, A., Walton, F. J., Floyd, A., and Heitman, J. (2008). Identification of the sex genes in an early diverged fungus. Nature 451, 193–196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tao, F., Zhang, L., and Hu, Y. (2011). Resource Service Management in Manufacturing Grid System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ridgway, A. (2015). Early Childhood Pedagogical Play: A Cultural-Historical Interpretation Using Visual Methodology., eds. G. Quiñones and L. Li. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fisenko, A. I., and Lemberg, V. F. (2016). “Chromaticity Properties of Black-Body Radiation for Different Color Spaces,” in Black-body Radiative, Thermodynamic, and Chromatic Functions: Tables in Finite Spectral Ranges, ed. V. F. Lemberg (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 19–33.

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 Genetic Architecture.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017). ESO Release Incredible View Of The Cat’s Paw Nebula. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/eso-release-incredible-view-of-the-cat-s-paw-nebula/ (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 (1990). Highway Safety: Fatalities in Light Trucks and Vans. 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

Stone, B. (2017). Efficacy of Collaborative Consulting Training Module. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Protess, B., and Goldstein, M. (2016). Justices Asked to Clarify ‘Benefit’ in Insider Trading. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wunsch, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wunsch, 2000; Buckley and Evershed, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Buckley and Evershed, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Idnurm et al., 2008)

About the journal

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