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

Fisher, K., 2000. BIOMEDICINE: “Glue Grant” Boosts Cell Signaling Consortium. Science 289, 1854a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dupont, S., Pörtner, H., 2013. Marine science: get ready for ocean acidification. Nature 498, 429.

A journal article with 3 authors

David, S.S., O’Shea, V.L., Kundu, S., 2007. Base-excision repair of oxidative DNA damage. Nature 447, 941–950.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sada, A., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, H., Saga, Y., 2009. The RNA-binding protein NANOS2 is required to maintain murine spermatogonial stem cells. Science 325, 1394–1398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker, S.D., Nahar, L., 2007. Chemistry for Pharmacy Students. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Flüeler, T. (Ed.), 2006. Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-term Radioactive Waste Governance, Environment & Policy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Tani, S., Narazaki, H., Ueda, Y., Nakamura, Y., Hino, T., Ohyama, S., Tomari, S., Yokota, C., Ohboshi, N., Minematsu, K., Nakazawa, K., 2016. A Web-Based Stroke Education Application for Older Elementary Schoolchildren Focusing on the FAST Message, in: Chen, Y.-W., Torro, C., Tanaka, S., Howlett, R.J., C. Jain, L. (Eds.), Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–48.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Mystery Of Belgian King’s Blood Finally Solved After 80 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mystery-belgian-king-blood-finally-solved-after-80-years/ (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, 2008. Transportation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Strengthened Planning to Guide Investments in Key Aviation and Surface Transportation Security Programs, but More Work Remains (No. GAO-08-487T). 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

Kellogg, A., 2010. Hospital Lean and Six Sigma: Is there a financial benefit? (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Rothenberg, B., 2017. Young Stars Climb Rankings, Jolting Russia’s Dormant Men’s Game to Life. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fisher, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dupont and Pörtner, 2013; Fisher, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Dupont and Pörtner, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sada et al., 2009)

About the journal

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