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

McEwen, A. S. (2002). Planetary science. Active volcanism on Io. Science 297, 2220–2221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ge, X., and He, S. (2014). Experimental realization of an open cavity. Sci. Rep. 4, 5965.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowak, M. A., Plotkin, J. B., and Jansen, V. A. (2000). The evolution of syntactic communication. Nature 404, 495–498.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gorthi, A., Romero, J. C., Loranc, E., Cao, L., Lawrence, L. A., Goodale, E., et al. (2018). EWS-FLI1 increases transcription to cause R-loops and block BRCA1 repair in Ewing sarcoma. Nature 555, 387–391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DeRosa, D. F. (2013). Foreign Exchange Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Andrade, C., Gulikers, J., and Polder, R. eds. (2015). Durability of Reinforced Concrete from Composition to Protection: Selected Papers of the 6th International RILEM PhD Workshop held in Delft, The Netherlands, July 4-5, 2013. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

P.-Vaisband, I., Jakushokas, R., Popovich, M., Mezhiba, A. V., Köse, S., and Friedman, E. G. (2016). “Electromigration,” in On-Chip Power Delivery and Management, eds. R. Jakushokas, M. Popovich, A. V. Mezhiba, S. Köse, and E. G. Friedman (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 61–74.

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

Luntz, S. (2015). New Fungal Find Suggests Dinosaurs Did Drugs Too. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-did-drugs-fungal-find-suggests/ [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 (1985). NASA’s FIA Program: NASA’s Progress in Implementing Financial Integrity Act Requirements. 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

Rogers, S. L. (2017). Fear of Cancer and Theory of Planned Behavior as Predictors of Pap Screenings.

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

Butler, P. (2011). Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No. New York Times, A39.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McEwen, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (McEwen, 2002; Ge and He, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ge and He, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gorthi et al., 2018)

About the journal

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

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