How to format your references using the Frontiers in Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity citation style

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

Maddox, B. (2003). The double helix and the “wronged heroine.” Nature 421, 407–408.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ioannidis, J. P. A., and Khoury, M. J. (2011). Improving validation practices in “omics” research. Science 334, 1230–1232.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lopinski, G. P., Wayner, D. D., and Wolkow, R. A. (2000). Self-directed growth of molecular nanostructures on silicon. Nature 406, 48–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pillow, J. W., Shlens, J., Paninski, L., Sher, A., Litke, A. M., Chichilnisky, E. J., et al. (2008). Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuronal population. Nature 454, 995–999.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sommers-Flanagan, J., and Sommers-Flanagan, R. (2015). Tough Kids Cool Counseling. Alexandria, VA, USA: American Counseling Association.

An edited book

Kjærulff, U. B. (2008). Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams: A Guide to Construction and Analysis., ed. A. L. Madsen. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tsutsumi, A., and Shimazu, A. (2016). “Guidelines for Primary Prevention for Mental Health at Work,” in Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific: From Theory to Practice, eds. A. Shimazu, R. Bin Nordin, M. Dollard, and J. Oakman (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 61–75.

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 Metabolism and Chemodiversity.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Think Your Cat Misses You? It’s Probably Just Pissed Off. IFLScience.

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 (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: DEA Has Developed Plans and Established Controls for Business Continuity Planning. 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

Lofton, C. D. (2012). Mid-Career Transitions: A Qualitative Study Examining the Developmental Relationships, Attitudes, Networks, and Strategies of Frontline Workers that Seek Career Development and Advancement. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Kelly, C. (2009). Antiques Dealers Still Scoring Big Sales. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maddox, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Maddox, 2003; Ioannidis and Khoury, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ioannidis and Khoury, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Pillow et al., 2008)

About the journal

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