How to format your references using the Frontiers in Genitourinary Oncology citation style

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

Brody, H. (2012). Editorial: taste. Nature 486, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hogue, T. S., and Pincetl, S. (2015). WATER CONSERVATION. Are you watering your lawn? Science 348, 1319–1320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bennett, M. J., Lebrón, J. A., and Bjorkman, P. J. (2000). Crystal structure of the hereditary haemochromatosis protein HFE complexed with transferrin receptor. Nature 403, 46–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Karlsson, A., Parales, J. V., Parales, R. E., Gibson, D. T., Eklund, H., and Ramaswamy, S. (2003). Crystal structure of naphthalene dioxygenase: side-on binding of dioxygen to iron. Science 299, 1039–1042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hallberg, M. C. (2008). Economic Trends in U.S. Agriculture and Food Systems Since World War II. Ames, Iowa, USA: Iowa State University Press.

An edited book

Biersack, E., Callegari, C., and Matijasevic, M. eds. (2013). Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: From Measurement, Classification, and Anomaly Detection to Quality of Experience. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Popescu-Zeletin, R., Radusch, I., and Rigani, M. A. (2010). “Information in the Vehicular Network,” in Vehicular-2-X Communication: State-of-the-Art and Research in Mobile Vehicular Ad hoc Networks, eds. I. Radusch and M. A. Rigani (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 47–66.

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 Genitourinary Oncology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Evidence For Ancient Wet Martian Environment Hints At Habitats For Life. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-wet-martian-environment-revealed-widespread-excavated-carbonate-rocks/ (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 (2015). Federal Student Loans: Education Could Do More to Help Ensure Borrowers Are Aware of Repayment and Forgiveness Options. 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

Jozwiak, A. L. (2012). Social work internship stipend program: A grant proposal. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Stellin, S. (2013). Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2012; Hogue and Pincetl, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hogue and Pincetl, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Karlsson et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Genitourinary Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology