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

Asphaug, E., 2006. Adventures in near-Earth object exploration. Science 312, 1328–1329.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, T., Wyse, S., 2012. IBI series winner. A season for inquiry: investigating phenology in local campus trees. Science 335, 932–933.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bourne, P.E., Lorsch, J.R., Green, E.D., 2015. Perspective: Sustaining the big-data ecosystem. Nature 527, S16-7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Taga, M.E., Larsen, N.A., Howard-Jones, A.R., Walsh, C.T., Walker, G.C., 2007. BluB cannibalizes flavin to form the lower ligand of vitamin B12. Nature 446, 449–453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vilensky, J.A., Robertson, W.M., Suárez-Quian, C.A., 2015. The Clinical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Clover, D.E., 2013. The Nature of Transformation: Environmental Adult Education, International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Gales, M.J.F., 2011. Model-Based Approaches to Handling Uncertainty, in: Kolossa, D., Häb-Umbach, R. (Eds.), Robust Speech Recognition of Uncertain or Missing Data: Theory and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 101–125.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Researchers Getting Closer To Proving Gravitational Waves From Neutron Stars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/researchers-getting-closer-proving-gravitational-waves-neutron-stars/ (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, 1975. Automatic Data Processing Activity in the Feed Materials Production Center, Fernald, Ohio (No. 088725). 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

Caballero Suarez, O.L., 2008. Effects of ion correlations in high density plasmas: Neutrino scattering and transport properties in supernovae and neutron star crusts (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Burghardt, L.F., 2005. Ready for Their Close-Up, a Couple Consults. New York Times 14LI12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Asphaug, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Asphaug, 2006; Long and Wyse, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Long and Wyse, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Taga et al., 2007)

About the journal

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