How to format your references using the Frontiers in Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology. 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

Roch, S. (2010). Toward extracting all phylogenetic information from matrices of evolutionary distances. Science 327, 1376–1379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, C. H., and Wainwright, P. C. (2013). Multiple fitness peaks on the adaptive landscape drive adaptive radiation in the wild. Science 339, 208–211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murton, J. B., Peterson, R., and Ozouf, J.-C. (2006). Bedrock fracture by ice segregation in cold regions. Science 314, 1127–1129.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jones, K. L., Adekola, A. S., Bardayan, D. W., Blackmon, J. C., Chae, K. Y., Chipps, K. A., et al. (2010). The magic nature of (132)Sn explored through the single-particle states of (133)Sn. Nature 465, 454–457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adhikari, S. K. (2005). Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Blevins-Knabe, B., and Austin, A. M. B. eds. (2016). Early Childhood Mathematics Skill Development in the Home Environment. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

González-Manzano, L., González-Tablas, A. I., de Fuentes, J. M., and Ribagorda, A. (2013). “User-Managed Access Control in Web Based Social Networks,” in Security and Privacy Preserving in Social Networks, eds. R. Chbeir and B. Al Bouna (Vienna: Springer), 97–137.

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 Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017). 33 Stunning Images Shortlisted For The Sony World Photography Awards 2017. 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 (1978). The Indian Self-Determination Act: Many Obstacles Remain. 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

Schewe, E. M. (2016). Re-establishing Connections: Listening to Women Psychology Students Talk about Recovery. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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). Fear, Frustration and Fascination: Sharapova on Serena. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roch, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Roch, 2010; Martin and Wainwright, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Wainwright, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
Abbreviation	Front. Microbiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-302X
Scope	Microbiology Microbiology (medical)