How to format your references using the Frontiers of Architectural Research citation style

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

Fitch, T., 2010. Journal club. A cognitive biologist foresees breakthroughs in understanding vocal learning. Nature 466, 163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Agosta, S.J., Dunham, A.E., 2004. Comment on “How the horned lizard got its horns.” Science 306, 230; author reply 230.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferguson, N.M., Donnelly, C.A., Anderson, R.M., 2001. The foot-and-mouth epidemic in Great Britain: pattern of spread and impact of interventions. Science 292, 1155–1160.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lo, S.-T., Chen, K.Y., Lin, S.-D., Wu, J.-Y., Lin, T.L., Yeh, M.R., Chen, T.-M., Liang, C.-T., 2013. Controllable disorder in a hybrid nanoelectronic system: realization of a superconducting diode. Sci. Rep. 3, 2274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll, C., Antti Pirnes, Withers LLP, 2009. From Innovation to Cash Flows. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Haltinner, K., Sarathchandra, D., Alves-Foss, J., Chang, K., Conte de Leon, D., Song, J. (Eds.), 2016. Cyber Security: Second International Symposium, CSS 2015, Coeur d’Alene, ID, USA, April 7-8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Petrii, O.A., Fletcher, S., 2015. The Frumkin Era in Electrochemistry, in: Scholz, F. (Ed.), Electrochemistry in a Divided World: Innovations in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 49–96.

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 of Architectural Research.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. New Caste of Thieving Ants Discovered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/thieving-ants-act-guilty-after-their-heists/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1984. Review of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (No. HRD-84-78). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Abedin, G., 2010. Exploring the potential of art-based education for adolescents with learning disabilities: A case study of engagement in learning through the arts (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Vecsey, G., 2009. Weather Doesn’t Dampen Latest Heart-Stopper in the Bronx. New York Times SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fitch, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Agosta and Dunham, 2004; Fitch, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Agosta and Dunham, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lo et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers of Architectural Research
Abbreviation	Front. Arch. Res.
ISSN (print)	2095-2635
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