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

Jayaraman, K. S. (2000). Indian space agency sets its sights on a mission to the Moon. Nature 406, 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carrete, M., and Tella, J. L. (2013). High individual consistency in fear of humans throughout the adult lifespan of rural and urban burrowing owls. Sci. Rep. 3, 3524.

A journal article with 3 authors

McPhaden, M. J., Zebiak, S. E., and Glantz, M. H. (2006). ENSO as an integrating concept in earth science. Science 314, 1740–1745.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Koçer, Z. A., Fan, Y., Huether, R., Obenauer, J., Webby, R. J., Zhang, J., et al. (2014). Survival analysis of infected mice reveals pathogenic variations in the genome of avian H1N1 viruses. Sci. Rep. 4, 7455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaplan, W. (1998). Maxima and Minima with Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marcaide, J.-M., and Weiler, K. W. eds. (2005). Cosmic Explosions: On the 10th Anniversary of SN1993J (IAU Colloquium 192). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Arous, G. B., Gayrard, V., and Kuptsov, A. (2008). “A New REM Conjecture,” in In and Out of Equilibrium 2, eds. V. Sidoravicius and M. E. Vares (Basel: Birkhäuser), 59–96.

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). This Headset Lets You Control Your TV Using The Power Of Your Mind. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/control-your-tv-using-power-your-mind/ (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 (2012). Information Technology Dashboard: Opportunities Exist to Improve Transparency and Oversight of Investment Risk at Select Agencies. 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

Alimo, C. J. (2010). From dialogue to action: The development of White racial allies. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Crow, K. (2000). Beyond the Finish Line, Where Should Fans Gather? New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jayaraman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Jayaraman, 2000; Carrete and Tella, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Carrete and Tella, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Koçer et al., 2014)

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)