How to format your references using the Frontiers in Bone Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Bone 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Gewin, V. (2005). Making it in the biotech business. Nature 435, 124–125.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thermann, R., and Hentze, M. W. (2007). Drosophila miR2 induces pseudo-polysomes and inhibits translation initiation. Nature 447, 875–878.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nørskov, J. K., Bligaard, T., and Kleis, J. (2009). Chemistry. Rate control and reaction engineering. Science 324, 1655–1656.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schrinner, M., Ballauff, M., Talmon, Y., Kauffmann, Y., Thun, J., Möller, M., et al. (2009). Single nanocrystals of platinum prepared by partial dissolution of Au-Pt nanoalloys. Science 323, 617–620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garton, A. F. (2008). Exploring Cognitive Development: The Child as Problem Solver. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Navab, N., Hornegger, J., Wells, W. M., and Frangi, A. F. eds. (2015). Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2015: 18th International Conference, Munich, Germany, October 5-9, 2015, Proceedings, Part III., 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Merz, C. (2010). “Incubating Micro Enterprises in Rural South Africa – The Use Case of Virtual Buying Cooperatives,” in ICT for the Next Five Billion People: Information and Communication for Sustainable Development, eds. A. Picot and J. Lorenz (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 35–45.

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 Bone Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017). Watch Four Exoplanets Orbit Their Star In This Amazing Video. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-four-exoplanets-orbit-their-star-in-this-amazing-video/ (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 (1978). Improvements Needed in the Department of Energy’s Efforts To Develop a Financial Reporting 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

Gambini, F. (2011). Leadership capacity for succession and sustainability in a family-owned private school. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Crow, K. (2002). The Nonpaying Audience Withholds Its Applause. New York Times, 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2005; Thermann and Hentze, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Thermann and Hentze, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Schrinner et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Bone Research
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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