How to format your references using the Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technology. 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

Gershon, D. (2003). When the chips are down. Nature 424, 585.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulain, A. J., and Barkay, T. (2013). Environmental science. Cracking the mercury methylation code. Science 339, 1280–1281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Comas, D., Petit, F., and Preat, T. (2004). Drosophila long-term memory formation involves regulation of cathepsin activity. Nature 430, 460–463.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mou, X., Sun, S., Edwards, R. A., Hodson, R. E., and Moran, M. A. (2008). Bacterial carbon processing by generalist species in the coastal ocean. Nature 451, 708–711.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

James, L. (2014). Sustainability Footprints in SMEs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hellmüller, S., and Santschi, M. eds. (2014). Is Local Beautiful?: Peacebuilding between International Interventions and Locally Led Initiatives. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Basso, C., Ho, S. Y., and Thiene, G. (2008). “Anatomic and Histopathological Characteristics of the Conductive Tissues of the Heart,” in Electrical Diseases of the Heart: Genetics, Mechanisms, Treatment, Prevention, eds. I. Gussak, C. Antzelevitch, A. A. M. Wilde, P. A. Friedman, M. J. Ackerman, and W.-K. Shen (London: Springer), 37–51.

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 Genomic Assay Technology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016). How Psychology Can Help Us Solve Climate Change. IFLScience.

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 (2009). Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2009 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Fresolone, C. (2012). The pedagogical use of Gerald Near’s “Chantworks.” Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Koblin, J., and Barnes, B. (2017). A Lavish Emmy Campaign. 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 (Gershon, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2003; Poulain and Barkay, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Poulain and Barkay, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mou et al., 2008)

About the journal

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