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

Auerbach, D. J. (2001). Surface science. Hitting the surface--softly. Science 294, 2488–2489.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benkovic, S. J., and Hammes-Schiffer, S. (2006). Biochemistry. Enzyme motions inside and out. Science 312, 208–209.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karner, M. B., DeLong, E. F., and Karl, D. M. (2001). Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean. Nature 409, 507–510.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Olesen, C., Picard, M., Winther, A.-M. L., Gyrup, C., Morth, J. P., Oxvig, C., et al. (2007). The structural basis of calcium transport by the calcium pump. Nature 450, 1036–1042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthold, H. J., and Binnewies, M. (2005). Chemisches Grundpraktikum. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Yamanaka, R. ed. (2012). Glioma: Immunotherapeutic Approaches. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Le Naour, C., Hoffman, D. C., and Trubert, D. (2014). “Fundamental and Experimental Aspects of Single Atom-at-a-Time Chemistry,” in The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements, eds. M. Schädel and D. Shaughnessy (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 241–260.

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. (2016). Full “Rebirth” Of A Star Observed For The First Time. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/full-rebirth-of-a-star-observed-for-the-first-time/ (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 (1999). NATO: Progress Toward More Mobile and Deployable Forces. 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

Zhu, M. (2017). Numerical Investigation of Encapsulation Technology in Polymer Flooding Processes. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Rojas, R., and Mueller, B. (2015). Conflicting Accounts Emerge on What Set Off Deadly Violence at Upstate Church. New York Times, A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Auerbach, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Auerbach, 2001; Benkovic and Hammes-Schiffer, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Benkovic and Hammes-Schiffer, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Olesen 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)