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

Wang, Q. (2015). China’s scientists must engage the public on GM. Nature 519, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tilman, D., and Snell-Rood, E. C. (2014). Ecology: Diversity breeds complementarity. Nature 515, 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reiner, S. L., Sallusto, F., and Lanzavecchia, A. (2007). Division of labor with a workforce of one: challenges in specifying effector and memory T cell fate. Science 317, 622–625.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou, J., Zhang, H., Meng, H., Zhu, Y., Bao, G., Zhang, Y., et al. (2014). Discovery of a super-strong promoter enables efficient production of heterologous proteins in cyanobacteria. Sci. Rep. 4, 4500.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Denham, B. E. (2016). Categorical Statistics for Communication Research. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hinchey, M., Pagnoni, A., Rammig, F. J., and Schmeck, H. eds. (2008). Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Second IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, September 8–9, 2008, Milano, Italy. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilson, T. L., Rohlfs, K., and Hüttemeister, S. (2009). “Signal Processing and Receivers: Theory,” in Tools of Radio Astronomy, eds. K. Rohlfs and S. Hüttemeister (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 55–78.

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

Fang, J. (2016). How Plesiosaurs And Ichthyosaurs Burst Onto The Scene. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-plesiosaurs-and-ichthyosaurs-burst-scene/ (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 (1999). Transportation Infrastructure: Better Data Needed to Rate the Nation’s Highway Conditions. 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

Winhusen, E. R. (2001). Precambrian Seawater Temperature Analysis Using Oxygen Isotopes from Hamersley Carbonates, Western Australia. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Gimenez, S. (2011). When a Decision Letter Is From Mom’s Alma Mater. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Tilman and Snell-Rood, 2014; Wang, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tilman and Snell-Rood, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

About the journal

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