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

Clayton, J. (2004). RNA interference: the silent treatment. Nature 431, 599–605.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lohmann, U., and Lesins, G. (2002). Stronger constraints on the anthropogenic indirect aerosol effect. Science 298, 1012–1015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker, W. C., Weber, T., and Chapman, E. R. (2004). Reconstitution of Ca2+-regulated membrane fusion by synaptotagmin and SNAREs. Science 304, 435–438.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang, T.-T., Chong, K.-Y., Ojcius, D. M., Wu, Y.-H., Ko, Y.-F., Wu, C.-Y., et al. (2013). Hirsutella sinensis mycelium suppresses interleukin-1β and interleukin-18 secretion by inhibiting both canonical and non-canonical inflammasomes. Sci. Rep. 3, 1374.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheremisinoff, N. P. (2014). Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

lisahunter (2013). Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World: Social Change Through the Cultural Professions., eds. E. Emerald and G. Martin. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Howard, M. (2011). “You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers,” in Scientific Literacy Under the Microscope: A Whole School Approach to Science Teaching and Learning, eds. J. Loughran, K. Smith, and A. Berry (Rotterdam: SensePublishers), 47–57.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). A Major Barrier To Drone Deliveries In The US Is Finally Being Lifted. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/a-major-barrier-to-drone-deliveries-in-the-us-is-finally-being-lifted/ (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 (1991). Index Digest of the Published Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Volumes 66-70, September 1991. 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

Narayanan, B. C. (2008). Structure function diversity within the phosphoenolpyruvate mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily as revealed by the enzymes oxaloacetate decarboxylase and 2,3-dimethylmalate lyase. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Wagner, J. (2017). Baseball; Rainout Gives Injured Mets More Rest. New York Times, B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clayton, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Lohmann and Lesins, 2002; Clayton, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lohmann and Lesins, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2013)

About the journal

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