How to format your references using the Frontiers in Genomic Endocrinology citation style

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

Livio, M. (2015). Astronomy: Hubble’s legacy. Nature 520, 287–289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, G., and Goeddel, D. V. (2002). TNF-R1 signaling: a beautiful pathway. Science 296, 1634–1635.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai, Y., Zhang, G., and Zhang, Y.-W. (2014). Layer-dependent band alignment and work function of few-layer phosphorene. Sci. Rep. 4, 6677.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shao, X., Lu, W., Zhang, R., and Pan, F. (2013). Enhanced photocatalytic activity of TiO₂-C hybrid aerogels for methylene blue degradation. Sci. Rep. 3, 3018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, D. A. (2004). Galois Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Baresi, L., and Heckel, R. eds. (2006). Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 9th International Conference, FASE 2006, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006, Vienna, Austria, March 27-28, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Huseynova, S. A., Mahmudov, H., and Mustafayev, I. I. (2013). “Photochemical Decomposition of Hydrogen Sulphide in the Gas Mixtures and Generation Molecular Hydrogen,” in Black Sea Energy Resource Development and Hydrogen Energy Problems, eds. A. Veziroğlu and M. Tsitskishvili (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 47–53.

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 Genomic Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). How Did This Bioluminescent Bug Get Its Glow? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-did-bioluminescent-bug-get-its-glow/ (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 (2009). Federal Student Aid: Highlights of a Study Group on Simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. 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

Cai, S. (2008). 3D Numerical Modeling of Dry/Wet Contact Mechanics for Rough, Multilayered Elastic-Plastic Solid Surfaces and Effects of Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity During Separation with Applications. 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

Rothenberg, B. (2017). Top-Ranked Players Murray and Kerber Are Eliminated in Fourth Round. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Livio, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Goeddel, 2002; Livio, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Goeddel, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Shao et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Genomic Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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