How to format your references using the Frontiers in Plant Nutrition citation style

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

Mézard, M. (2003). Physics/computer science. Passing messages between disciplines. Science 301, 1685–1686.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meyer, E., and Glatzel, T. (2009). Applied physics. Novel probes for molecular electronics. Science 324, 1397–1398.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhew, R. C., Miller, B. R., and Weiss, R. F. (2000). Natural methyl bromide and methyl chloride emissions from coastal salt marshes. Nature 403, 292–295.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sait, S. M., Liu, W. C., Thompson, D. J., Godfray, H. C., and Begon, M. (2000). Invasion sequence affects predator-prey dynamics in a multi-species interaction. Nature 405, 448–450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Audibert, P. (2013). Mathematics for Informatics and Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Frolov, I. E. (2005). The Arctic Basin: Results from the Russian Drifting Stations., eds. Z. M. Gudkovich, V. F. Radionov, A. V. Shirochkov, and L. A. Timokhov. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Koge, H., Ito, Y., and Nakano, K. (2014). “A GPU Implementation of Clipping-Free Halftoning Using the Direct Binary Search,” in Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 14th International Conference, ICA3PP 2014, Dalian, China, August 24-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part I, eds. X.-H. Sun, W. Qu, I. Stojmenovic, W. Zhou, Z. Li, H. Guo, et al. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 57–70.

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 Nutrition.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014). 61% Fall In Genital Warts Thanks To HPV Vaccine. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gardasil-vaccine-success-against-genital-warts/ (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 (1974). Procurement Equipment for New York Postal Data Center. 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

Meaux, B. (2015). Effect of Formation Deformation on Casing Standoff in Highly Deviated and Horizontal Wells. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2016). Supreme Court Hears Plea for Help From Puerto Rico. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mézard, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Mézard, 2003; Meyer and Glatzel, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Meyer and Glatzel, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sait et al., 2000)

About the journal

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