How to format your references using the Frontiers in Plant Evolution and Development citation style

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

Chan, M. H. W. (2008). Supersolidity. Science 319, 1207–1209.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gold, J. I., and Shadlen, M. N. (2000). Representation of a perceptual decision in developing oculomotor commands. Nature 404, 390–394.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fradkin, E., Kivelson, S. A., and Oganesyan, V. (2007). Physics. Electron nematic phase in a transition metal oxide. Science 315, 196–197.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zachos, J. C., Arthur, M. A., Bralower, T. J., and Spero, H. J. (2002). Palaeoclimatology: tropical temperatures in greenhouse episodes. Nature 419, 897–8; discussion 898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., Liew, T. H., and Yeap, B. L. (2005). Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hosseini, K. (2011). Minimizing Spurious Tones in Digital Delta-Sigma Modulators. 1st ed. , ed. M. P. Kennedy New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cook, R. F. (2005). “Microstructural Control of Indentation Crack Extension under Externally Applied Stress,” in Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics: Active Materials, Nanoscale Materials, Composites, Glass and Fundamentals, eds. R. C. Bradt, D. Munz, M. Sakai, and K. W. White (Boston, MA: Springer US), 57–67.

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 Plant Evolution and Development.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Working At A Desk Means You Might Die Sooner, Unless You Exercise For An Hour Every Day. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/working-at-a-desk-means-you-might-die-sooner-unless-you-exercise-for-an-hour-every-day/ [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 (1993). Energy and Science Reports and Testimony: 1992. 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

Baxter, J. M. (2010). Enantioselective Mannich-type Reactions Promoted by Strained Silane Lewis Acids: Selective Generation of Two Contiguous Stereocenters and Entry into a Novel Class of Pyrrolidines.

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

Feeney, K. (2010). Snack Like a Surfer. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chan, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Gold and Shadlen, 2000; Chan, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gold and Shadlen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Zachos et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Plant Evolution and Development
Abbreviation	Front. Plant Sci.
ISSN (online)	1664-462X
Scope	Plant Science

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