How to format your references using the Frontiers in Technical Advances in Plant Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Technical Advances in Plant Science. 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

Barnes, W. J. P. (2007). Materials science. Biomimetic solutions to sticky problems. Science 318, 203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wain-Hobson, S., and Weiss, R. A. (2000). If free speech costs lives that’s a high price to pay. Nature 407, 834.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herrmann, B., Thöni, C., and Gächter, S. (2008). Antisocial punishment across societies. Science 319, 1362–1367.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sweere, U., Eichenberg, K., Lohrmann, J., Mira-Rodado, V., Bäurle, I., Kudla, J., et al. (2001). Interaction of the response regulator ARR4 with phytochrome B in modulating red light signaling. Science 294, 1108–1111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rao, C. L., Narayanamurthy, V., and Simha, K. R. Y. (2016). Applied Impact Mechanics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gallucci, M. (2007). Radiographic Atlas of Skull and Brain Anatomy. , eds. S. Capoccia and A. Catalucci Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Konstas, A. A., González, R. G., and Lev, M. H. (2011). “CT Perfusion (CTP),” in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Imaging and Intervention, eds. R. G. González, J. A. Hirsch, M. H. Lev, P. W. Schaefer, and L. H. Schwamm (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 83–121.

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 Technical Advances in Plant Science.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Atomic Oxygen Has Been Detected In Mars’ Atmosphere. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/atomic-oxygen-has-been-detected-mars-atmosphere/ [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 (1971). Assessment of the Teacher Corps Program at the University of Southern California and Participating Schools in Tulare County Serving Rural-Migrant Children. 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

E, C.-C. (2014). The syntax of comparative correlatives in Mandarin Chinese.

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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS (2010). Comic Strips Think Pink. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barnes, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Wain-Hobson and Weiss, 2000; Barnes, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wain-Hobson and Weiss, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Sweere et al., 2001)

About the journal

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

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