How to format your references using the Frontiers in Crop Science and Horticulture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Crop Science and Horticulture. 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

Gupta, S. (2015). Surgery: Diverse interventions. Nature 526, S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

An, S. J., and Almers, W. (2004). Tracking SNARE complex formation in live endocrine cells. Science 306, 1042–1046.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plante, O. J., Palmacci, E. R., and Seeberger, P. H. (2001). Automated solid-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides. Science 291, 1523–1527.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Martin, A., Bardwell, P. D., Woo, C. J., Fan, M., Shulman, M. J., and Scharff, M. D. (2002). Activation-induced cytidine deaminase turns on somatic hypermutation in hybridomas. Nature 415, 802–806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Villalta, T. (2012). The Large-Cap Portfolio. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brimblecombe, P., Hara, H., Houle, D., and Novak, M. eds. (2007). Acid Rain - Deposition to Recovery. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Baru, C., Bhandarkar, M., Curino, C., Danisch, M., Frank, M., Gowda, B., et al. (2015). “Discussion of BigBench: A Proposed Industry Standard Performance Benchmark for Big Data,” in Performance Characterization and Benchmarking. Traditional to Big Data: 6th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2014, Hangzhou, China, September 1--5, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, eds. R. Nambiar and M. Poess (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 44–63.

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 Crop Science and Horticulture.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Watch Live As NASA Discusses Their Latest Rover To Mars In 2020. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-nasa-discusses-their-latest-rover-to-mars-in-2020/ (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 (2016). Federally Leased Vehicles: Agencies Should Strengthen Assessment Processes to Reduce Underutilized Vehicles. 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

Yelkenci, S. (2017). Algorithmic Music Composition Using Linear Algebra. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Harris, K. (2017). Commuter Wear. New York Times, ST3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gupta, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (An and Almers, 2004; Gupta, 2015).

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

Two authors: (An and Almers, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Martin et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Crop Science and Horticulture
Abbreviation	Front. Plant Sci.
ISSN (online)	1664-462X
Scope	Plant Science