How to format your references using the Frontiers in Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity citation style

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

Macilwain, C. (2001). Science in a changed world. Nature 414, 836–837.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, T. T., and Palese, P. (2011). Biochemistry. Catching a moving target. Science 333, 834–835.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goncharov, A. F., Struzhkin, V. V., and Jacobsen, S. D. (2006). Reduced radiative conductivity of low-spin (Mg,Fe)O in the lower mantle. Science 312, 1205–1208.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hall, C., Tharakan, P., Hallock, J., Cleveland, C., and Jefferson, M. (2003). Hydrocarbons and the evolution of human culture. Nature 426, 318–322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambaum, M. H. P. (2010). Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lin, C. Y.-Y. (2013). National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain., eds. L. Edvinsson, J. Chen, and T. Beding. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartz, N. B., and Domowicz, M. S. (2014). “Chemistry and Function of Glycosaminoglycans in the Nervous System,” in Glycobiology of the Nervous System, eds. R. K. Yu and C.-L. Schengrund (New York, NY: Springer), 89–115.

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 Metabolism and Chemodiversity.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Why Do We Kiss? 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 (1992). Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Program Shows Success but Can Be Strengthened. 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

Mitchell, S. F. (2009). Life-review therapy: A prevention program for the elderly who are experiencing life transitions. A grant proposal. 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

Barron, J. (2016). Overlooked Influences in Trump’s Life: A Famous Minister and His Church. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2001; Wang and Palese, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Palese, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Hall et al., 2003)

About the journal

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