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

Chang, F. R. (2009). Computer science. Is your computer secure? Science 325, 550–551.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinnamon, S. C., and Reynolds, S. D. (2009). Cell biology. Using taste to clear the air(ways). Science 325, 1081–1082.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Connor, J. E., Duda, J. J., and Grant, G. E. (2015). Ecology. 1000 dams down and counting. Science 348, 496–497.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Burns, S. J., Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Kramers, J., and Al-Subbary, A. A. (2003). Indian Ocean climate and an absolute chronology over Dansgaard/Oeschger events 9 to 13. Science 301, 1365–1367.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dewulf, G., Blanken, A., and Bult-Spiering, M. (2012). Strategic Issues in Public-Private Partnerships. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Thorpe, H., and Olive, R. eds. (2016). Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics and Experience. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Van de Ven, A. (2011). “Chern Classes and Complex Manifolds,” in Classi caratteristiche e questioni connesse, ed. E. Martinelli (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 189–219.

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

Luntz, S. (2014). Moon Dances With Planets. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/moon-dances-planets/ (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 (1993). Space Science: Causes and Impacts of Cutbacks to NASA’s Outer Solar System Exploration Missions. 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

Alsaadi, A. (2016). Smart smoke and fire detection with wireless and global system for mobile technology. 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

Yablonsky, L. (2008). The Hebrew School. New York Times, M280.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chang, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chang, 2009; Kinnamon and Reynolds, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kinnamon and Reynolds, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Burns et al., 2003)

About the journal

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