How to format your references using the Frontiers in Toxicogenomics citation style

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

Redfield, S. (2012). Astronomy. Gathering interstellar gas. Science 336, 1243–1244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wheeler, T., and von Braun, J. (2013). Climate change impacts on global food security. Science 341, 508–513.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlebois, R. L., Beiko, R. G., and Ragan, M. A. (2003). Microbial phylogenomics: Branching out. Nature 421, 217.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fukami, T., Beaumont, H. J. E., Zhang, X.-X., and Rainey, P. B. (2007). Immigration history controls diversification in experimental adaptive radiation. Nature 446, 436–439.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa, F., Gautier, C., Labouré, E., and Revol, B. (2013). Electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Electronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Damjanovich, S. ed. (2005). Biophysical Aspects of Transmembrane Signaling. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

He, M., and Lu, T.-M. (2012). “Cu-Dielectric Interfaces,” in Metal-Dielectric Interfaces in Gigascale Electronics: Thermal and Electrical Stability, ed. T.-M. Lu (New York, NY: Springer), 57–74.

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 Toxicogenomics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015). Astronomers Witness The Dying “Breath” Of A Giant Radio Galaxy. 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 (2012). Maritime Infrastructure: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Effectiveness of Federal Efforts to Support the Marine Transportation System. 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

Ford, V. F. (2012). An Exploratory Investigation of the Relationship between Turnover Intentions, Work Exhaustion and Disengagement among IT Professionals in a Single Institution of Higher Education in a Major Metropolitan Area. 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

Wagner, J. (2017). Back on the Mound, Harvey Has Issues With Command. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Redfield, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Redfield, 2012; Wheeler and von Braun, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Fukami et al., 2007)

About the journal

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