How to format your references using the Frontiers in Nutrigenomics citation style

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

McGilvray, A. (2014). Research assessment: the limits of excellence. Nature 511, S64-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rakow, N. A., and Suslick, K. S. (2000). A colorimetric sensor array for odour visualization. Nature 406, 710–713.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hull, P. M., Darroch, S. A. F., and Erwin, D. H. (2015). Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems. Nature 528, 345–351.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kilpatrick, C. D., Foley, R. J., Kasen, D., Murguia-Berthier, A., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Coulter, D. A., et al. (2017). Electromagnetic evidence that SSS17a is the result of a binary neutron star merger. Science 358, 1583–1587.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ccps (2017). Guidelines for Combustible Dust Hazard Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sadri, F., and Satoh, K. eds. (2008). Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 8th International Workshop, CLIMA VIII, Porto, Portugal, September 10-11, 2007. Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Berkovskiy, V., and Voitsekhovich, O. V. (2007). “Population Dose Estimate Due to Aquatic Pathways,” in Chernobyl – What Have We Learned?: The Successes and Failures to Mitigate Water Contamination over 20 Years, eds. Y. Onishi, O. V. Voitsekhovich, and M. J. Zheleznyak (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 87–107.

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 Nutrigenomics.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). Smart Homes Of The Future Could Read And React To Your Emotions. 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 (1973). Common Interests of Government and Schools of Business and Administration in Improving Management in Government. 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

Goldstein, D. L. (2010). Integration of geospatial technologies into K–12 curriculum: An investigation of teacher and student perceptions and student academic achievement. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Kanter, J. (2017). Head of European Council Reappointed Over Protest. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGilvray, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rakow and Suslick, 2000; McGilvray, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rakow and Suslick, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Kilpatrick et al., 2017)

About the journal

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