How to format your references using the Frontiers in Non-Coding RNA citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Non-Coding RNA. 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

McGaugh, S. (2007). Astronomy. Seeing through dark matter. Science 317, 607–608.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine, B. L., and June, C. H. (2013). Perspective: assembly line immunotherapy. Nature 498, S17.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howat, I. M., Joughin, I., and Scambos, T. A. (2007). Rapid changes in ice discharge from Greenland outlet glaciers. Science 315, 1559–1561.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tian, F., Duan, D., Li, D., Chen, C., Sha, X., Zhao, Z., et al. (2014). Miscibility and ordered structures of MgO-ZnO alloys under high pressure. Sci. Rep. 4, 5759.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott, C. H., and Smith, L. L. (2010). Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Eachempati, S. R., and Reed, R. L., II eds. (2015). Acute Cholecystitis., 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirabayashi, Y. (2011). “Collective Recognition and Shared Identity: Factors Behind the Emergence and Mobilization Process in a Referendum Movement1,” in East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region, eds. J. Broadbent and V. Brockman (New York, NY: Springer), 81–97.

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 Non-Coding RNA.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). New Bandage Sucks Bacteria Out Of A Wound. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bandage-sucks-bacteria-and-rips-them/ (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 (2010). Forest Service Research and Development: Improvements in Delivery of Research Results Can Help Ensure That Benefits of Research Are Realized. 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

Maas, C. C. (2014). Emergency department utilization patterns in patients with diabetes. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2002). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Novelist Faces Pornography Charge. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGaugh, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (McGaugh, 2007; Levine and June, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Levine and June, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tian et al., 2014)

About the journal

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