How to format your references using the Frontiers in Nutrigenomics citation style

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

Zaanen, J. (2014). High-temperature superconductivity: electron mirages in an iron salt. Nature 515, 205–206.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krueger, A. B., and Stone, A. A. (2014). Psychology and economics. Progress in measuring subjective well-being. Science 346, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh, R., Jamieson, A., and Cresswell, P. (2008). GILT is a critical host factor for Listeria monocytogenes infection. Nature 455, 1244–1247.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu, W., Gius, D., Onyango, P., Muldoon-Jacobs, K., Karp, J., Feinberg, A. P., et al. (2008). Epigenetic silencing of tumour suppressor gene p15 by its antisense RNA. Nature 451, 202–206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hinkelmann, K., and Kempthorne, O. (2005). Design and Analysis of Experiments: Advanced Experimental Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gübitz, G., Bauer, A., Bochmann, G., Gronauer, A., and Weiss, S. eds. (2015). Biogas Science and Technology., 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Clay, S. M., and Fong, S. S. (2013). “Systems Biology,” in Developing Biofuel Bioprocesses Using Systems and Synthetic Biology, ed. S. S. Fong (New York, NY: Springer), 21–36.

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 Nutrigenomics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). Baby Bats Learn Sounds by Mimicking their Moms. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bat-babies-learn-sounds-mimicking-their-moms/ (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 (1982). Army’s Contracting Out of Laundry and Educational Testing Services at Fort Carson, Colorado. 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

Wheatley, B. A. (2010). Leadership styles of healthcare executives: Comparisons of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant styles. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Popper, N. (2012). Muni Rates Examined For Signs Of Rigging. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zaanen, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Krueger and Stone, 2014; Zaanen, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Krueger and Stone, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2008)

About the journal

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