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

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

Taylor, S. R. (2004). Why can’t planets be like stars? Nature 430, 509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bucchi, M., and Neresini, F. (2004). Biotechnology. Why are people hostile to biotechnologies? Science 304, 1749.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, J., Timusk, T., and Gu, G. D. (2004). High-transition-temperature superconductivity in the absence of the magnetic-resonance mode. Nature 427, 714–717.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rumpel, S., LeDoux, J., Zador, A., and Malinow, R. (2005). Postsynaptic receptor trafficking underlying a form of associative learning. Science 308, 83–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Magnasco, V. (2010). Models for Bonding in Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Abonyi, J. (2007). Cluster Analysis for Data Mining and System Identification., ed. B. Feil. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Vacano, B. von, and Motzkus, M. (2010). “Photonic Integration Enables Single-Beam Nonlinear Spectroscopy for Microscopy and Microanalytics,” in Extreme Photonics & Applications, eds. T. J. Hall, S. V. Gaponenko, and S. A. Paredes (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 57–73.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015). Man With Crohn’s Disease Shares Photo Of All The Medical Equipment He Uses Every Day To Prove That Looks Are Deceiving. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/crohns-sufferer-speaks-out-against-discrimination/ (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 (2010). Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in Continuity Planning and Involvement of Key Users. 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

Schwartz, K. A. (2010). Dynamics of Teacher Self-Efficacy: Middle School Reading and Language Arts Teacher Responses on a Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Brantley, B. (2016). Theater; Song, Dance and the Devil. New York Times, AR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bucchi and Neresini, 2004; Taylor, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Bucchi and Neresini, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Rumpel et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Genomic Physiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)