How to format your references using the Frontiers in Plant Traffic and Transport citation style

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

Clarke, T. (2003). Infection risk puts the brakes on Canada’s biomedical research. Nature 422, 652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helms, J. A., and Schneider, R. A. (2003). Cranial skeletal biology. Nature 423, 326–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conroy, C., van Dokkum, P. G., and Choi, J. (2015). Ubiquitous time variability of integrated stellar populations. Nature 527, 488–491.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nicastro, F., Mathur, S., Elvis, M., Drake, J., Fang, T., Fruscione, A., et al. (2005). The mass of the missing baryons in the X-ray forest of the warm-hot intergalactic medium. Nature 433, 495–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shimizu, H. (2017). Shimizu’s Dermatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ahuja, M. R., and Ramawat, K. G. eds. (2014). Biotechnology and Biodiversity. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Neumann, K.-H., Imani, J., and Kumar, A. (2009). “Cell Suspension Cultures,” in Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology: Basics and Application, eds. A. Kumar and K.-H. Neumann (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 43–50.

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 Traffic and Transport.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Canyons Offer New Explanations For Water On Mars. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/canyons-offer-new-explanations-for-water-on-mars/ (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 (1970). Savings Possible by Buying Automatic Data Processing Equipment or by Leasing It From Commercial Leasing Firms. 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

Remon, G. (2010). Not Here Not Now. 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

Neuman, P. W. (2015). La violencia y el progreso se enfrentan en una ciudad en el Pacífico colombiano. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clarke, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Clarke, 2003; Helms and Schneider, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Helms and Schneider, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Nicastro et al., 2005)

About the journal

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