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

Bagla, P. (2000). PALEONTOLOGY: Team Rejects Claim of Early Indian Fossils. Science 289, 1273a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, S. K., and Ahn, C. W. (2014). Probing of 2 dimensional confinement-induced structural transitions in amorphous oxide thin film. Sci. Rep. 4, 4200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alexander, M. H., Capecchi, G., and Werner, H.-J. (2002). Theoretical study of the validity of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in the Cl + H2 --> HCl + H reaction. Science 296, 715–718.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Woodcroft, B. J., Singleton, C. M., Boyd, J. A., Evans, P. N., Emerson, J. B., Zayed, A. A. F., et al. (2018). Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost. Nature 560, 49–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alvarez, P. J. J., and Illman, W. A. (2005). Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Balcázar, J. L., Long, P. M., and Stephan, F. eds. (2006). Algorithmic Learning Theory: 17th International Conference, ALT 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sundaram, B. M., and Tippur, H. V. (2016). “Dynamic Crack Propagation in Layered Transparent Materials Studied Using Digital Gradient Sensing Method: Part-II,” in Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, eds. B. Song, L. Lamberson, D. Casem, and J. Kimberley (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 25–31.

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, D. (2016). World Set For Hottest Year On Record: World Meteorological Organization. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/world-set-for-hottest-year-on-record-world-meteorological-organization/ (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 (1988). Aircraft Development: The Advanced Tactical Fighter’s Costs, Schedule, and Performance Goals. 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

Fuller, J. B. (2015). The Woodsman’s Son. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Whiteside, K. (2016). Racing to Break Through Barriers. New York Times, SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bagla, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bagla, 2000; Lee and Ahn, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Ahn, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Woodcroft et al., 2018)

About the journal

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