How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cancer Endocrinology citation style

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

Grill, S. W. (2010). Cell biology. Forced to be unequal. Science 330, 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, E., and Chan, M. H. W. (2004). Observation of superflow in solid helium. Science 305, 1941–1944.

A journal article with 3 authors

Makarieva, A. M., Gorshkov, V. G., and Li, B.-L. (2009). Comment on “Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny.” Science 325, 1206; author reply 1206.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dawson, M. R., Marivaux, L., Li, C.-K., Beard, K. C., and Métais, G. (2006). Laonastes and the “Lazarus effect” in recent mammals. Science 311, 1456–1458.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aït-Kadi, D., Chouinard, M., Marcotte, S., and Riopel, D. (2012). Sustainable Reverse Logistics Network. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ferreira, J. J. M., Raposo, M., Rutten, R., and Varga, A. eds. (2013). Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer: Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebihara, Y., Peaucelle, D., and Arzelier, D. (2015). “Multiobjective Controller Synthesis for LTI Systems,” in S-Variable Approach to LMI-Based Robust Control, eds. D. Peaucelle and D. Arzelier (London: Springer), 139–164.

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 Cancer Endocrinology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Easter Islanders Mixed With Native Americans Centuries Before Europeans Arrived. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/easter-islanders-mixed-native-americans-centuries-europeans-arrived/ (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 (2009). Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2009 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Mendez, H. (2009). Examination of friendship and burnout among child welfare workers. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Shear, M. D. (2017). Trump, Inspired by France, Wants to Show Off Military Might With a July 4 Parade. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grill, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kim and Chan, 2004; Grill, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Chan, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dawson et al., 2006)

About the journal

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