How to format your references using the Frontiers in Technical Advances in Plant Science citation style

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

Rhodes, G. (2014). The career I dreamed of? Science 345, 1414.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gundersen, G. G., and Bretscher, A. (2003). Cell biology. Microtubule asymmetry. Science 300, 2040–2041.

A journal article with 3 authors

Law, R. M., Matear, R. J., and Francey, R. J. (2008). Comment on “Saturation of the southern ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change.” Science 319, 570; author reply 570.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yun, B.-W., Feechan, A., Yin, M., Saidi, N. B. B., Le Bihan, T., Yu, M., et al. (2011). S-nitrosylation of NADPH oxidase regulates cell death in plant immunity. Nature 478, 264–268.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zepernick, H.-J., and Finger, A. (2005). Pseudo Random Signal Processing. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd,.

An edited book

Feldman, A. M. (2006). Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory, 2nd Edition., 2nd Edition, ed. R. Serrano. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Daun, H. (2006). “Privatisation, Decentralisation and Governance in Education in the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, and Sweden,” in Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education: The Role of the State, ed. J. Zajda (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 75–96.

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 Technical Advances in Plant Science.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Scientists Have Managed To Probe The Icy Interior Of Ceres. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-have-managed-to-probe-the-icy-interior-of-ceres/ (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 (2005). National Airspace System: Initiatives to Reduce Flight Delays and Enhance Capacity are Ongoing but Challenges Remain. 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

Shah, N. (2017). High Performance Cryptography for Electronic Product Code for Internet of Things Applications. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010). Settled in the City, But Still in a Hurry Every Weekend. New York Times, B18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rhodes, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gundersen and Bretscher, 2003; Rhodes, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gundersen and Bretscher, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yun et al., 2011)

About the journal

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