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

Torres-Reveron, A. (2009). Hispanic people start leaping over barriers to better jobs. Nature 460, 949.

A journal article with 2 authors

McAdams, H. H., and Shapiro, L. (2003). A bacterial cell-cycle regulatory network operating in time and space. Science 301, 1874–1877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foreman, B. Z., Heller, P. L., and Clementz, M. T. (2012). Fluvial response to abrupt global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary. Nature 491, 92–95.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang, T., Zhang, Z., Liao, F., Cai, Q., Li, Y., Lee, S.-T., et al. (2014). The effect of dielectric constants on noble metal/semiconductor SERS enhancement: FDTD simulation and experiment validation of Ag/Ge and Ag/Si substrates. Sci. Rep. 4, 4052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Volpe, M. A. (2013). Rethinking Christian Identity. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

L’Abate, L. ed. (2012). Paradigms in Theory Construction. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujiwara, T. (2013). “Cesium Uptake in Rice: Possible Transporter, Distribution, and Variation,” in Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, eds. T. M. Nakanishi and K. Tanoi (Tokyo: Springer Japan), 29–35.

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

Hale, T. (2016). Three Mile High Volcanic Eruption Captured In Dazzling Infrared. IFLScience.

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 (1991). Tax System Modernization: An Assessment of IRS’ Design Master Plan. 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

Haigh, C. V. (2017). More Than Skin Deep: The Impact of Self-Esteem, Desire for Lighter Skin, and Gender on the Mental Health of University Students in Thailand. 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

Kramer, A. E. (2015). Remembering Slain Critic of Putin, Tens of Thousands March in Moscow. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Torres-Reveron, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (McAdams and Shapiro, 2003; Torres-Reveron, 2009).

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

Two authors: (McAdams and Shapiro, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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