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

Mandavilli, A. (2007). Reinventing an industry. Nature 445, 138–139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melnik, D. G., and Miller, T. A. (2008). Chemistry. The changing shapes of molecules. Science 320, 881–882.

A journal article with 3 authors

Izumikawa, T., Sato, B., and Kitagawa, H. (2014). Chondroitin sulfate is indispensable for pluripotency and differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 3701.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yamashita, A., Liu, S., Woltjen, K., Thomas, B., Meng, G., Hotta, A., et al. (2013). Cartilage tissue engineering identifies abnormal human induced pluripotent stem cells. Sci. Rep. 3, 1978.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collins, D. (2008). Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Azar, A. T. ed. (2013). Modelling and Control of Dialysis Systems: Volume 1: Modeling Techniques of Hemodialysis Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Robert-McComb, J. J. (2008). “The Female Athlete Triad: Disordered Eating, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporosis,” in The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout The Lifespan, eds. J. J. Robert-McComb, R. Norman, and M. Zumwalt (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press), 81–92.

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

Davis, J. (2017). First-Ever Species Of Cave Fish Discovered In Europe. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/firstever-species-of-cave-fish-discovered-in-europe/ (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 (2002). District of Columbia: Planned Funding and Schedule for D.C. Public Schools’ Modernization Program Are Unrealistic. 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

Stuehling, A. L. (2017). “We Speak ‘Hola’ In School”: A Case Study of Global Education in a Partial-Immersion Spanish Preschool. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017). Activist Hedge Fund Picks A New Target: ComScore. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mandavilli, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Mandavilli, 2007; Melnik and Miller, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Melnik and Miller, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yamashita et al., 2013)

About the journal

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