How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention citation style

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

Clutton-Brock, T. (2007). Sexual selection in males and females. Science 318, 1882–1885.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hitti, F. L., and Siegelbaum, S. A. (2014). The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory. Nature 508, 88–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayden, B. Y., Pearson, J. M., and Platt, M. L. (2009). Fictive reward signals in the anterior cingulate cortex. Science 324, 948–950.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gao, P., Xing, X., Li, Y., Ngai, T., and Jin, F. (2014). Charging and discharging of single colloidal particles at oil/water interfaces. Sci. Rep. 4, 4778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hallberg, M. C. (2008). Economic Trends in U.S. Agriculture and Food Systems Since World War II. Ames, Iowa, USA: Iowa State University Press.

An edited book

Whittaker, D., and Lappan, S. eds. (2009). The Gibbons: New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ribeiro-Rodrigues, R. (2012). “Host Response to M. leprae,” in Leprosy: A Practical Guide, eds. E. Nunzi and C. Massone (Milano: Springer), 27–38.

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 Epidemiology and Prevention.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Here’s What It Looks Like When Evolution Gets Weird. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/heres-what-it-looks-when-evolution-gets-weird/ (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 (1971). Involvement of the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in the Development of an Information System Called the College Suggestor. 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

Ashirgade, A. (2010). Mechanistic study of the rubber-brass adhesion interphase. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Paulson, M. (2017). Ahead of Tonys, Watching Everything. New York Times, A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clutton-Brock, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Clutton-Brock, 2007; Hitti and Siegelbaum, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hitti and Siegelbaum, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology