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

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

Gavaghan, H. (2001). A grassroots revolution. Nature 414, 6–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice, W. R., and Chippindale, A. K. (2001). Sexual recombination and the power of natural selection. Science 294, 555–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lappala, A., Zaccone, A., and Terentjev, E. M. (2013). Ratcheted diffusion transport through crowded nanochannels. Sci. Rep. 3, 3103.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wild, M., Gilgen, H., Roesch, A., Ohmura, A., Long, C. N., Dutton, E. G., et al. (2005). From dimming to brightening: decadal changes in solar radiation at Earth’s surface. Science 308, 847–850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robyns, B., François, B., Delille, G., and Saudemont, C. (2015). Energy Storage in Electric Power Grids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wright, K. W., Spiegel, P. H., and Thompson, L. S. eds. (2006). Handbook of Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borthen, K., Hemforth, B., Mertins, B., Behrens, B., and Fabricius-Hansen, C. (2014). “Referring Expressions in Speech Reports,” in Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages, eds. B. Hemforth, B. Mertins, and C. Fabricius-Hansen (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 111–142.

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 Proteomics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017). We Can Still Keep Global Warming Below 2℃ – But The Hard Work Is About To Start. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-can-still-keep-global-warming-below-but-the-hard-work-is-about-to-start/ (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 (1983). Cost Recovery Practices Inconsistent With Government Policy. 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

Russo, R. A. (2009). Using a socio -cultural framework to evaluate farmland preservation policy success in Maryland. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011). Redemption Is in Burress’s Sizable Reach. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gavaghan, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gavaghan, 2001; Rice and Chippindale, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Rice and Chippindale, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wild et al., 2005)

About the journal

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