How to format your references using the Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics citation style

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

Miller, R. A. (2005). Biomedicine. The anti-aging sweepstakes: catalase runs for the ROSes. Science 308, 1875–1876.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beagle, S. D., and Lockless, S. W. (2015). Microbiology: Electrical signalling goes bacterial. Nature 527, 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bence, N. F., Sampat, R. M., and Kopito, R. R. (2001). Impairment of the ubiquitin-proteasome system by protein aggregation. Science 292, 1552–1555.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xiao, S., Ellwood, S., Calis, O., Patrick, E., Li, T., Coleman, M., et al. (2001). Broad-spectrum mildew resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana mediated by RPW8. Science 291, 118–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guinot, V. (2010). Wave Propagation in Fluids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Campagnoli, P. (2009). Dynamic Linear Models with R., 1st Edn, eds. S. Petrone and G. Petris. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Richards, H., and Swanger, J. (2009). “Culture Change: A Practical Method with a Theoretical Basis,” in Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace, ed. J. de Rivera (New York, NY: Springer), 57–70.

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 Population Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Why Does Asparagus Make Some People’s Pee Smell But Not Others? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-does-asparagus-make-some-people-s-pee-smell-not-others/ (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 (1999). Telecommunications: Overview of the Cramming Problem. 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

Wuite, J. (2006). Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Three East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers and Their Floating Ice Tongues. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Rutenberg, J. (2016). News Outlets Wonder Where They Stumbled. 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 (Miller, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Miller, 2005; Beagle and Lockless, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Beagle and Lockless, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)