How to format your references using the Frontiers of Architectural Research citation style

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

Trounson, A., 2012. Keith H. Campbell (1954-2012). Nature 491, 193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thrall, P.H., Burdon, J.J., 2003. Evolution of virulence in a plant host-pathogen metapopulation. Science 299, 1735–1737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siegel, D.A., Doney, S.C., Yoder, J.A., 2002. The North Atlantic spring phytoplankton bloom and Sverdrup’s critical depth hypothesis. Science 296, 730–733.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smale, D.A., Brown, K.M., Barnes, D.K.A., Fraser, K.P.P., Clarke, A., 2008. Ice scour disturbance in Antarctic waters. Science 321, 371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannataro, M., Guzzi, P.H., 2011. Data Management of Protein Interaction Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Capaccioli, M., 2012. Arminio Nobile e la misura del cielo: ovvero Le disavventure di un astronomo napoletano, i blu - pagine di scienza. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Anderka, M., Lipka, N., Stein, B., 2010. Evaluating Cross-Language Explicit Semantic Analysis and Cross Querying, in: Peters, C., Nunzio, G.M.D., Kurimo, M., Mandl, T., Mostefa, D., Peñas, A., Roda, G. (Eds.), Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I. Text Retrieval Experiments: 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 2, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 50–57.

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 of Architectural Research.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Seabirds Feast On Seafood Buffet Thanks To Jellyfish Blooms [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seabirds-feast-seafood-buffet-thanks-jellyfish-blooms/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Air Traffic Control: Preliminary Observations on Commercialized Air Navigation Service Providers (No. GAO-05-542T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Chung, E.K., 2003. The Sophisticated Genetic Diversities of Human Complement Component C4 and RCCX Modules in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Haigney, S., 2017. A Stolen de Kooning Emerges Decades Later. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trounson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Thrall and Burdon, 2003; Trounson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Thrall and Burdon, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Smale et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers of Architectural Research
Abbreviation	Front. Arch. Res.
ISSN (print)	2095-2635
Scope