How to format your references using the Frontiers in Livestock Genomics citation style

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

Gould, P. (2002). Portraits of science. Two good women, or too good to be true? Science 296, 1805–1806.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keeling, P. J., and Palmer, J. D. (2000). Parabasalian flagellates are ancient eukaryotes. Nature 405, 635–637.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dame, R. T., Noom, M. C., and Wuite, G. J. L. (2006). Bacterial chromatin organization by H-NS protein unravelled using dual DNA manipulation. Nature 444, 387–390.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao, Y., Araki, S., Wu, J., Teramoto, T., Chang, Y.-F., Nakano, M., et al. (2011). An expanded palette of genetically encoded Ca²⁺ indicators. Science 333, 1888–1891.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Talbot, D. B. (2012). Frequency Acquisition Techniques for Phase Locked Loops. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Reinertsen, A. B. ed. (2016). Becoming Earth: A Post Human Turn in Educational Discourse Collapsing Nature/Culture Divides. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Kolokotronis, N., Limniotis, K., and Kalouptsidis, N. (2007). “Efficient Computation of the Best Quadratic Approximations of Cubic Boolean Functions,” in Cryptography and Coding: 11th IMA International Conference, Cirencester, UK, December 18-20, 2007. Proceedings, ed. S. D. Galbraith (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 73–91.

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 Livestock Genomics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). There Might Be A Huge Salty Ocean Beneath Pluto’s Heart. 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 (2015). School Meals: USDA Could Improve Verification Process for Program Access. 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

Stanton, B. (2009). On location: Race and family in the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, June Jordan, and Cathy Song. 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

Williams, J. (2017). The Left Bank. New York Times, BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gould, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Keeling and Palmer, 2000; Gould, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Keeling and Palmer, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Livestock Genomics
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)