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

Carr, A. M. (2003). Molecular biology. Beginning at the end. Science 300, 1512–1513.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, D., and Savidge, T. (2015). BIOPHYSICS. Comment on “Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase.” Science 349, 936.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinervo, B., Svensson, E., and Comendant, T. (2000). Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by natural selection. Nature 406, 985–988.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Benincà, E., Huisman, J., Heerkloss, R., Jöhnk, K. D., Branco, P., Van Nes, E. H., et al. (2008). Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community. Nature 451, 822–825.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Péra, M.-C., Hissel, D., Gualous, H., and Turpin, C. (2013). Electrochemical Components. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cho, B.-K., and Tominaga, T. eds. (2010). Moyamoya Disease Update. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer, F. L. (2011). “Use of Continued Fractions and Algorithms Related to Them,” in Alcune questioni di analisi numerica, ed. A. Ghizzetti (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 352–419.

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

Fang, J. (2015). Two Spectacular New Peacock Spiders Discovered in Queensland. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-spectacular-new-peacock-spiders-discovered-queensland/ [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 (1992). Aviation Safety: Progress on FAA Safety Indicators Program Slow and Challenges Remain. 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

Hong, H. J. (2017). Acrolein Modification of Human Apolipoprotein A-I Impairs Binding to Phosphatidylglycerol and Lipopolysaccharide of Gram-Negative Bacteria.

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

Hodgman, J. (2017). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carr, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Carr, 2003; Chen and Savidge, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Savidge, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Benincà 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)

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