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

Leonhardt, U. (2013). Applied physics: cloaking of heat. Nature 498, 440–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Walczyk, T., and von Blanckenburg, F. (2002). Natural iron isotope variations in human blood. Science 295, 2065–2066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oliveira, R. F., Carneiro, L. A., and Canário, A. V. M. (2005). Behavioural endocrinology: no hormonal response in tied fights. Nature 437, 207–208.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lam, S. K., Chen, D., Mosier, A. R., and Roush, R. (2013). The potential for carbon sequestration in Australian agricultural soils is technically and economically limited. Sci. Rep. 3, 2179.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gutiérrez, Í., Meléndez, J., and Hernández, E. (2007). Design and Characterization of Integrated Varactors for RF Applications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pelekis, N. (2014). Mobility Data Management and Exploration., ed. Y. Theodoridis. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Inozemtseva, L., Holmes, R., and Walker, R. J. (2014). “Recommendation Systems in-the-Small,” in Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering, eds. M. P. Robillard, W. Maalej, R. J. Walker, and T. Zimmermann (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 77–92.

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 Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Artificial Tweezers Block HIV, Herpes And Hepatitis C. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-tweezers-block-hiv-herpes-and-hepatitis-c/ (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 (2001). Early Childhood Programs: The Use of Impact Evaluations to Assess Program Effects. 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

Masuyama, G. (2010). The Bird Is A Word. 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

Shpigel, B. (2017). Leader of Chiefs’ Special Teams Gives the Humble Punt Its Due. New York Times, SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leonhardt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Walczyk and von Blanckenburg, 2002; Leonhardt, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Walczyk and von Blanckenburg, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lam et al., 2013)

About the journal

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