How to format your references using the Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Cheke, R. A. (2007). Ecology. Thinking long term. Science 318, 577–578.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krengel, U., and Törnroth-Horsefield, S. (2015). Biochemistry. Coping with oxidative stress. Science 347, 125–126.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ronshaugen, M., McGinnis, N., and McGinnis, W. (2002). Hox protein mutation and macroevolution of the insect body plan. Nature 415, 914–917.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Plath, K., Fang, J., Mlynarczyk-Evans, S. K., Cao, R., Worringer, K. A., Wang, H., et al. (2003). Role of histone H3 lysine 27 methylation in X inactivation. Science 300, 131–135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Audibert, P. (2013). Mathematics for Informatics and Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Carbone, A., Palleschi, G., Pastore, A. L., and Messas, A. eds. (2016). Functional Urologic Surgery in Neurogenic and Oncologic Diseases: Role of Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Karni, R., and Kaner, M. (2007). “An engineering tool for the conceptual design of service systems,” in Advances in Services Innovations, eds. D. Spath and K.-P. Fähnrich (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 65–83.

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 Applied Genetic Epidemiology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015). Blood Test Could Detect Traumatic Brain Injury. IFLScience.

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 (1983). Procedures for Making Grant Awards Under Three Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs. 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

Saifman, H. P. (2017). Millennial Nurse Manager Perspectives on Their Leadership Roles in the Hospital Setting: A Phenomenological Inquiry. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.

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

Healy, J., and Fandos, N. (2016). Protesters Gain Victory in Fight Over Oil Pipeline. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cheke, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cheke, 2007; Krengel and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Krengel and Törnroth-Horsefield, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Plath et al., 2003)

About the journal

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