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

Willyard, C. (2014). Heritability: The family roots of obesity. Nature 508, S58-60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ptashne, M., and Gann, A. (2003). Signal transduction. Imposing specificity on kinases. Science 299, 1025–1027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grottoli, A. G., Rodrigues, L. J., and Palardy, J. E. (2006). Heterotrophic plasticity and resilience in bleached corals. Nature 440, 1186–1189.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Montelli, R., Nolet, G., Dahlen, F. A., Masters, G., Engdahl, E. R., and Hung, S.-H. (2004). Finite-frequency tomography reveals a variety of plumes in the mantle. Science 303, 338–343.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stavetski, E. J. (2009). Managing Hedge Fund Managers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Huang, W. (2011). Adaptive Moving Mesh Methods., ed. R. D. Russell. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vickery, G., and Mickoleit, A. (2013). “Greener and Smarter: Information Technology can Improve the Environment in Many Ways,” in Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change, eds. E. M. Noam, L. M. Pupillo, and J. J. Kranz (New York, NY: Springer), 33–37.

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

Hamilton, K. (2016). The End Of Coconut Water? The World’s Trendiest Nut Is Under Threat Of Species Collapse. 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 (2017). DOD Major Automated Information Systems: Improvements Can Be Made in Applying Leading Practices for Managing Risk and Testing. 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

Luong, W. (2009). An identity building program for American-born children of Southeast Asian refugees. 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Film Series. New York Times, C20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willyard, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ptashne and Gann, 2003; Willyard, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ptashne and Gann, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Montelli 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