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

Spurgeon, D. (2002). Drawing back the talent: Canada. Nature 415, 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sankar, P., and Cho, M. K. (2002). Genetics. Toward a new vocabulary of human genetic variation. Science 298, 1337–1338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Niu, M., Cheng, D., and Cao, D. (2014). SiH/TiO2 and GeH/TiO2 heterojunctions: promising TiO2-based photocatalysts under visible light. Sci. Rep. 4, 4810.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Badjic, J. D., Balzani, V., Credi, A., Silvi, S., and Stoddart, J. F. (2004). A molecular elevator. Science 303, 1845–1849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gilmore, R., and Lefranc, M. (2011). The Topology of Chaos. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Strayer, S. M., Reynolds, P. L., and Ebell, M. H. eds. (2005). Handhelds in Medicine: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pratt, M. W., Norris, J. E., Lawford, H., and Arnold, M. L. (2010). “What He Said to Me Stuck: Adolescents’ Narratives of Grandparents and Their Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood,” in Narrative Development in Adolescence: Creating the Storied Self, eds. K. C. McLean and M. Pasupathi (Boston, MA: Springer US), 93–112.

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. (2014). Embryonic Stem Cells Show Promise As MS Treatment In Mice. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/embryonic-stem-cells-show-promise-ms-treatment-mice/ (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 (2016). West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts. 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

Sheah, J. (2015). Reading Dreams: Representation of Dreams Through Artists’ Books. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

LaFRANIERE, S., and Palmer, E. (2016). In 130 of Worst Shootings, Vision of Porous Gun Laws. 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 (Spurgeon, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Sankar and Cho, 2002; Spurgeon, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sankar and Cho, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Badjic et al., 2004)

About the journal

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