How to format your references using the Frontiers in Plant Proteomics citation style

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

Beall, J. (2012). Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature 489, 179.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klenk, H.-D., and Becker, S. (2015). VACCINES. Ebola virus vaccines--preparing for the unexpected. Science 349, 693–694.

A journal article with 3 authors

D’Orazio, D. J., Haiman, Z., and Schiminovich, D. (2015). Relativistic boost as the cause of periodicity in a massive black-hole binary candidate. Nature 525, 351–353.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Choi, G., Kwon, O.-J., Oh, Y., Yun, C.-O., and Choy, J.-H. (2014). Inorganic nanovehicle targets tumor in an orthotopic breast cancer model. Sci. Rep. 4, 4430.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee, J. C., and McCormick, N. J. (2011). Risk and Safety Analysis of Nuclear Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ellerton, N. F. (2014). Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and Ten other Extraordinary Cyphering Books., ed. M. A. (ken) Clements. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sutanto, T., and Nayak, R. (2014). “The Ranking Based Constrained Document Clustering Method and Its Application to Social Event Detection,” in Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 19th International Conference, DASFAA 2014, Bali, Indonesia, April 21-24, 2014. Proceedings, Part II, eds. S. S. Bhowmick, C. E. Dyreson, C. S. Jensen, M. L. Lee, A. Muliantara, and B. Thalheim (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 47–60.

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 Proteomics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Scientists Claim To Have Found 234 Alien Civilizations. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-claim-to-have-found-234-alien-civilizations/ (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 (1987). NASA ADP Systems: Information on the Automated Mission and Payload Tracking System. 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

Kyriacou, A. (2011). A method of verification of the total treatment time for the APBI (Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation) devices: Contura Multilumen Balloon and SAVI applicator. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2005). A Choreographer Vanishes In Murky Russian Mystery. New York Times, E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beall, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Beall, 2012; Klenk and Becker, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Klenk and Becker, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al., 2014)

About the journal

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