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

Leonard, K. E. (2015). Perspective: Beyond the neural circuits. Nature 522, S56.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lieberman, R. L., and Rosenzweig, A. C. (2005). Crystal structure of a membrane-bound metalloenzyme that catalyses the biological oxidation of methane. Nature 434, 177–182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker, W. C., Weber, T., and Chapman, E. R. (2004). Reconstitution of Ca2+-regulated membrane fusion by synaptotagmin and SNAREs. Science 304, 435–438.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Depuydt, M., Leonard, S. E., Vertommen, D., Denoncin, K., Morsomme, P., Wahni, K., et al. (2009). A periplasmic reducing system protects single cysteine residues from oxidation. Science 326, 1109–1111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Darling-Hammond, L., Meyerson, D., LaPointe, M., Terry Orr, M., Barber, M., Cohen, C., et al. (2009). Preparing Principals for a Changing World. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bas.

An edited book

Huang, D.-S., Ma, J., Jo, K.-H., and Gromiha, M. M. eds. (2012). Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications: 8th International Conference, ICIC 2012, Huangshan, China, July 25-29, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Moghaddam, B., and Pehrson, A. L. (2010). “Disinhibition of Prefrontal Cortex Neurons in Schizophrenia,” in Advances in Schizophrenia Research 2009, eds. W. F. Gattaz and G. Busatto (New York, NY: Springer), 99–111.

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. (2014). Researchers Strap Weighted Tail to Chickens to Understand Dinosaur Movements. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-strap-weighted-tail-chickens-understand-dinosaur-movements/ [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 (2000). Contract Management: Few Competing Proposals for Large DOD Information Technology Orders. 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

Collins, J. W. (2015). An Examination of Chronic Absenteeism as Related to Performance on End-of-Year Missouri State Assessments.

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

Crawford, S. (2017). Trump’s Big Telecom Giveaway. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leonard, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lieberman and Rosenzweig, 2005; Leonard, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lieberman and Rosenzweig, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Depuydt et al., 2009)

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)

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