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

Elliott, T. (2002). Geophysics. Caught offside. Science 295, 55–57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hattori, M., and Gouaux, E. (2012). Molecular mechanism of ATP binding and ion channel activation in P2X receptors. Nature 485, 207–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gravina, B., Mellars, P., and Ramsey, C. B. (2005). Radiocarbon dating of interstratified Neanderthal and early modern human occupations at the Chatelperronian type-site. Nature 438, 51–56.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wöhri, A. B., Katona, G., Johansson, L. C., Fritz, E., Malmerberg, E., Andersson, M., et al. (2010). Light-induced structural changes in a photosynthetic reaction center caught by Laue diffraction. Science 328, 630–633.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caferro, W. (2010). Contesting the Renaissance. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Cat, D. T., Pucci, A., and Wandelt, K. eds. (2009). Physics and Engineering of New Materials. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, Y., Liu, J., Hu, Q. M., Chen, Z. J., Du, X. H., and Heng, P. A. (2010). “Improving an SVM-based Liver Segmentation Strategy by the F-score Feature Selection Method,” in World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/4 Image Processing, Biosignal Processing, Modelling and Simulation, Biomechanics, eds. O. Dössel and W. C. Schlegel (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 13–16.

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

Hale, T. (2017). The Video Of Tigers Chasing A Drone Really Isn’t As Cool As You Think. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-video-of-tigers-chasing-a-drone-really-isnt-as-cool-as-you-think/ (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 (2000). Title I Program: Stronger Accountability Needed for Performance of Disadvantaged Students. 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

Park, A. (2009). Borderland beyond: Korean migrants and the creation of a modern state boundary between Korea and Russia, 1860-1937. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Ryerson, J. (2016). The Truth Is Out There. New York Times, BR31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elliott, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Elliott, 2002; Hattori and Gouaux, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hattori and Gouaux, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wöhri et al., 2010)

About the journal

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