How to format your references using the Frontiers in Genetics of Aging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Genetics of Aging. 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

Sun, L. (2015). Inorganic chemistry. A closer mimic of the oxygen evolution complex of photosystem II. Science 348, 635–636.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wyatt, M. B., and McSween, H. Y., Jr (2002). Spectral evidence for weathered basalt as an alternative to andesite in the northern lowlands of Mars. Nature 417, 263–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nalley, K., Johnston, S. A., and Kodadek, T. (2006). Proteolytic turnover of the Gal4 transcription factor is not required for function in vivo. Nature 442, 1054–1057.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Karakozova, M., Kozak, M., Wong, C. C. L., Bailey, A. O., Yates, J. R., 3rd, Mogilner, A., et al. (2006). Arginylation of beta-actin regulates actin cytoskeleton and cell motility. Science 313, 192–196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chevallier, J., and Ielpo, F. (2013). The Economics of Commodity Markets. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Tan, Y., Shi, Y., and Niu, B. eds. (2016). Advances in Swarm Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ICSI 2016, Bali, Indonesia, June 25-30, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mérida, I., Carrasco, S., and Avila-Flores, A. (2010). “Diacylglycerol Signaling: The C1 Domain, Generation of DAG, and Termination of Signals,” in Protein Kinase C in Cancer Signaling and Therapy, ed. M. G. Kazanietz (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press), 55–78.

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 Genetics of Aging.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Mars Is The Next Step For Humanity – We Must Take It. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-next-step-humanity-we-must-take-it/ (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). FTA New York Mass Transit Grants: False Statements to FTA Grantee/Grantee Violations of Contracting Policy. 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

Bennett, R. J. (2016). Exploring the effects of parasocial connection on relaxation exercise persistence in women. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Walsh, M. W. (2012). S.E.C. Suggests Reforms Of Municipal Bond Market. 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 (Sun, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Wyatt and McSween, 2002; Sun, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wyatt and McSween, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Karakozova et al., 2006)

About the journal

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