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

Marcus, P. S. (2004). Prediction of a global climate change on Jupiter. Nature 428, 828–831.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaher, H. S., and Green, R. (2009). Quality control by the ribosome following peptide bond formation. Nature 457, 161–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

Risk, J. M., Macknight, R. C., and Day, C. L. (2008). FCA does not bind abscisic acid. Nature 456, E5-6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Viola, L., Fortunato, E. M., Pravia, M. A., Knill, E., Laflamme, R., and Cory, D. G. (2001). Experimental realization of noiseless subsystems for quantum information processing. Science 293, 2059–2063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhurin, V. V. (2011). Industrial Ion Sources. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Krishnamurthy, A., and Plattner, B. eds. (2010). Passive and Active Measurement: 11th International Conference, PAM 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, April 7-9, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mayer, G. S., Vrscay, E. R., Lauzon, M. L., Goodyear, B. G., and Mitchell, J. R. (2008). “Self-similarity of Images in the Fourier Domain, with Applications to MRI,” in Image Analysis and Recognition: 5th International Conference, ICIAR 2008, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 25-27, 2008. Proceedings, eds. A. Campilho and M. Kamel (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 43–52.

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

Fang, J. (2014). Doctors Restore Motion to a Paralyzed Hand. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-restore-motion-paralyzed-hand/ (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 (1995). [Comments on Claim for Additional Charges on FAA Shipment]. 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

Obeng-Dompreh, S. (2008). The impact of servicemembers’ learning styles and computer anxiety levels on computer -mediated learning. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2013). S.&P. Seeks Dismissal of U.S. Civil Suit Over Rating of Mortgage Debt. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marcus, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Marcus, 2004; Zaher and Green, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Zaher and Green, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Viola et al., 2001)

About the journal

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