How to format your references using the Frontiers in Statistical Genetics and Methodology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Statistical Genetics and Methodology. 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

Funk, C. D. (2001). Prostaglandins and leukotrienes: advances in eicosanoid biology. Science 294, 1871–1875.

A journal article with 2 authors

Venkatesan, A. K., and Halden, R. U. (2014). Wastewater treatment plants as chemical observatories to forecast ecological and human health risks of manmade chemicals. Sci. Rep. 4, 3731.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bacci, A., Huguenard, J. R., and Prince, D. A. (2004). Long-lasting self-inhibition of neocortical interneurons mediated by endocannabinoids. Nature 431, 312–316.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Guo, S., Yamaguchi, Y., Schilbach, S., Wada, T., Lee, J., Goddard, A., et al. (2000). A regulator of transcriptional elongation controls vertebrate neuronal development. Nature 408, 366–369.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau, D., Fatu, A., and Souchet, D. (2014). Mixed Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Foelsch, P. A. (2014). Adolescent Identity Treatment: An Integrative Approach for Personality Pathology., eds. S. Schlüter-Müller, A. E. Odom, H. T. Arena, A. Borzutzky H., and K. Schmeck. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Nava, S., and Fanfulla, F. (2010). “Quando iniziare (o meno) il trattamento ventilatorio,” in Ventilazione meccanica non invasiva: Come, quando e perché, ed. F. Fanfulla (Milano: Springer), 21–27.

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 Statistical Genetics and Methodology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). How Deadly Cancer May Actually Be Spread By Survival Mechanism. IFLScience.

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 (1977). Status of the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Project. 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

Blandin, N. M. (2008). Re-conceptualizing leadership for an era of complexity and uncertainty: A case study of leadership in a complex adaptive system. 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

Barry, E. (2017). Fraud Culture Rises in India, Aiming at U.S. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Funk, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Funk, 2001; Venkatesan and Halden, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Venkatesan and Halden, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Statistical Genetics and Methodology
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)