How to format your references using the Frontiers in Genetics of Aging citation style

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

Knight, J. C. (2003). Photonic crystal fibres. Nature 424, 847–851.

A journal article with 2 authors

Butler, D., and Pockley, P. (2000). Monsanto makes rice genome public. Nature 404, 534.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldi, C., Cho, S., and Ellis, R. E. (2009). Mutations in two independent pathways are sufficient to create hermaphroditic nematodes. Science 326, 1002–1005.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Moreau, J. W., Weber, P. K., Martin, M. C., Gilbert, B., Hutcheon, I. D., and Banfield, J. F. (2007). Extracellular proteins limit the dispersal of biogenic nanoparticles. Science 316, 1600–1603.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weverka, P. (2010). Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 All-in-One for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wickramasinghe, N., Al-Hakim, L., Gonzalez, C., and Tan, J. eds. (2014). Lean Thinking for Healthcare. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Burriss, E. T., Alici, G., Spinks, G. M., and McGovern, S. (2011). “Modelling and Performance Enhancement of a Linear Actuation Mechanism Using Conducting Polymers,” in Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics: Revised and Selected Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics 2009, eds. J. A. Cetto, J. Filipe, and J.-L. Ferrier (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 63–78.

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 Genetics of Aging.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017). Explosion At Mount Etna Nearly Kills BBC Film Crew. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/explosion-mount-etna-nearly-kills-bbc-film-crew/ (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 (1996). Revision of FCC Rules to Ensure Compatibility with Enhanced 911 Emergency Calling Systems. 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

Estrin, J. L. (2014). Sitting in the Fire: An Exploration of Soul-Making in Prison. 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

Kinsley, M. (2017). The Faintest of Praise for the President. New York Times, SR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Butler and Pockley, 2000; Knight, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Butler and Pockley, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Moreau et al., 2007)

About the journal

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