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

Ballentine, C. J. (2002). Geochemistry. Tiny tracers tell tall tales. Science 296, 1247–1248.

A journal article with 2 authors

De Angelis, H., and Skvarca, P. (2003). Glacier surge after ice shelf collapse. Science 299, 1560–1562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, D. S., Komdeur, J., and Burke, T. (2003). Avian behaviour: Altruism and infidelity among warblers. Nature 422, 580.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rupert, P. B., Massey, A. P., Sigurdsson, S. T., and Ferré-D’Amaré, A. R. (2002). Transition state stabilization by a catalytic RNA. Science 298, 1421–1424.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poikselkä, M., Mayer, G., Khartabil, H., and Niemi, A. (2004). The IMS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Brodd, R. J. ed. (2013). Batteries for Sustainability: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Riegl, B., Poiriez, A., Janson, X., and Bergman, K. L. (2010). “The Gulf: Facies Belts, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Parameters of Sedimentation on a Carbonate Ramp,” in Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters: The Bahamas, Belize and the Persian/Arabian Gulf, eds. H. Westphal, B. Riegl, and G. P. Eberli (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 145–213.

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

Hale, T. (2016). Which Country Drinks The Most Alcohol? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/which-country-drinks-the-most-alcohol/ (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 (2013). Army Networks: Opportunities Exist to Better Utilize Results from Network Integration Evaluations. 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

Verret, J. E. (2019). Property Tax Limitations, School District Revenues, and Equity: Analyses of Pennsylvania’s Act One. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2016). On Trump and Clinton, Letting the Chips Fall Where They May. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ballentine, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ballentine, 2002; De Angelis and Skvarca, 2003).

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

Two authors: (De Angelis and Skvarca, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Rupert et al., 2002)

About the journal

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