How to format your references using the Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics citation style

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

Wu, F. (2014). Perspective: time to face the fungal threat. Nature 516, S7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gunn, P. P., and Joiner, S. D. (2009). Certificates should be strengthened. Science 323, 1289–90; author reply 1298-90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bland-Hawthorn, J., Harwit, A., and Harwit, M. (2002). Astronomy. Laser telemetry from space. Science 297, 523.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Denisov, E. V., Litviakov, N. V., Zavyalova, M. V., Perelmuter, V. M., Vtorushin, S. V., Tsyganov, M. M., et al. (2014). Intratumoral morphological heterogeneity of breast cancer: neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficiency and multidrug resistance gene expression. Sci. Rep. 4, 4709.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jamison, D. C. (2005). Perl Programming for Biologists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Imhoff, A. B., and Feucht, M. J. eds. (2015). Surgical Atlas of Sports Orthopaedics and Sports Traumatology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schadendorf, D., Kochs, C., and Livingstone, E. (2013). “Treatment of Distant and Irresectable Metastatic Disease,” in Handbook of Cutaneous Melanoma: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, eds. C. Kochs and E. Livingstone (Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.), 79–104.

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 Plant Genetics and Genomics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015). NASA Release Report On The Orbital ATK Antares Rocket Crash Last Year. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-release-report-orbital-atk-antares-rocket-crash-last-year/ (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 (2004). Department of Housing and Urban Development: Lack of Accountability for Computer Equipment Leaves These Assets Vulnerable to Loss or Misappropriation. 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

Fadamin, A. (2017). Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemistry of the Ruthenium Schiff Base Complex [(Saloph)Ru(NO)Cl]. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Feeney, K. (2008). Freshness City Dwellers Hunger For. New York Times, NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wu, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gunn and Joiner, 2009; Wu, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gunn and Joiner, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Denisov et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics
Abbreviation	Front. Plant Sci.
ISSN (online)	1664-462X
Scope	Plant Science