How to format your references using the Frontiers in Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics citation style

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

Hellemans, A. (2000). Cantilever tales. Science 290, 1529.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCarl, B. A., and Schneider, U. A. (2001). Climate change. Greenhouse gas mitigation in U.S. agriculture and forestry. Science 294, 2481–2482.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karlseder, J., Smogorzewska, A., and de Lange, T. (2002). Senescence induced by altered telomere state, not telomere loss. Science 295, 2446–2449.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Okamoto, Y. K., Kataza, H., Honda, M., Yamashita, T., Onaka, T., Watanabe, J.-I., et al. (2004). An early extrasolar planetary system revealed by planetesimal belts in beta Pictoris. Nature 431, 660–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner, D. (2011). A History of Modern Drama. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dohi, T., and Nakagawa, T. eds. (2013). Stochastic Reliability and Maintenance Modeling: Essays in Honor of Professor Shunji Osaki on his 70th Birthday. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rauf, S., Sienkiewicz-Paderewska, D., Malinowski, D. P., Hussain, M. M., Niazi, I. A. K., and Kausar, M. (2016). “Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures,” in Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits, eds. J. M. Al-Khayri, S. M. Jain, and D. V. Johnson (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 149–201.

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 Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014). Early Birds Had Feathers Before Flight. 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 (2010). Aviation Safety: Certification and Approval Processes Are Generally Viewed as Working Well, but Better Evaluative Information Needed to Improve Efficiency. 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

Merritt, K. M. (2017). Predicting the Success of Running Back Prospects in the National Football League. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Dynarski, S. (2016). A Little Breathing Room in the Financial Aid Gantlet. New York Times, BU3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hellemans, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hellemans, 2000; McCarl and Schneider, 2001).

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

Two authors: (McCarl and Schneider, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Okamoto et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology