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

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

Marks, T. J. (2007). Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007). Science 316, 214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pruitt, J. N., and Goodnight, C. J. (2014). Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions. Nature 514, 359–362.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung, R.-J., Pak, C. W., and Terman, J. R. (2011). Direct redox regulation of F-actin assembly and disassembly by Mical. Science 334, 1710–1713.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rowland, H. M., Ihalainen, E., Lindström, L., Mappes, J., and Speed, M. P. (2007). Co-mimics have a mutualistic relationship despite unequal defences. Nature 448, 64–67.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure (1987). Tray Distillation Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abdi, A. A. ed. (2011). Decolonizing Philosophies of Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Bein, D., Datta, A. K., and Sathyanarayanan, B. A. (2009). “Efficient Broadcasting by Selective Forwarding,” in Intelligent Distributed Computing III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus,October 2009, eds. G. A. Papadopoulos and C. Badica (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 43–52.

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 Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013). A patient in a vegetative state has been shown to ‘pay attention’ to sounds. 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 (1993). NASA Procurement: Planning for Pilot Test of New Procurement Procedures Is Adequate. 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

Merkurjev, D. (2015). Understanding Enhancer Role in Transcriptional Response. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2016). The Facts About Abortion Rights. New York Times, SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marks, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Marks, 2007; Pruitt and Goodnight, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pruitt and Goodnight, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rowland et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Genomic Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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