How to format your references using the Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. 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

Althorpe SC. Chemistry. Setting the trap for reactive resonances. Science (2010) 327:1460–1461.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang J, Zhao Y. Formation of zirconium metallic glass. Nature (2004) 430:332–335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sergio F, Newton I, Marchesi L. Conservation: top predators and biodiversity. Nature (2005) 436:192.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xie H, Wang H, Fu C, Liu Y, Snyder GJ, Zhao X, Zhu T. The intrinsic disorder related alloy scattering in ZrNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Sci Rep (2014) 4:6888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ribéreau-Gayon P, Dubourdieu D, Donèche B, Lonvaud A. Handbook of Enology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2006).

An edited book

Fütterer DK, Damaske D, Kleinschmidt G, Miller H, Tessensohn F eds. Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. (2006). XXVII, 477 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Khuseyinova N, Koenig W. “C-Reactive Protein and Other Inflammatory Markers in Cardiovascular Disease.,” In: Davidson MH, Toth PP, Maki KC, Gotto AM, editors. Therapeutic Lipidology. Contemporary Cardiology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press (2008). p. 69–112

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 Research Metrics and Analytics.

Blog post

Andrew E. How To Grow Your Own Bismuth Crystals. IFLScience (2015) https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/grow-your-own-bismuth-crystals/ [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. The Road to a Billion Dollar Saving: A Team Effort. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (1980).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Crooks RH. Analysis Of The XY Spin 1/2 Model In Staggered Field And Networks Of D-Wave Josephson Junctions. [Doctoral dissertation]. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina. (2012).

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

Detrick B. Where Nobody Knows Your Name. New York Times (2017)D13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
Abbreviation	Front. Res. Metr. Anal.
ISSN (online)	2504-0537
Scope