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

Stewart, C. N., Jr (2015). Songwriting and science. Science 349, 446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vasquez, C. G., and Martin, A. C. (2015). Cell biology: Death drags down the neighbourhood. Nature 518, 171–173.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barwick, B., Flannigan, D. J., and Zewail, A. H. (2009). Photon-induced near-field electron microscopy. Nature 462, 902–906.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sorek, R., Zhu, Y., Creevey, C. J., Francino, M. P., Bork, P., and Rubin, E. M. (2007). Genome-wide experimental determination of barriers to horizontal gene transfer. Science 318, 1449–1452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirwan, M. J. (2013). Handbook of Paper and Paperboard Packaging Technology. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

David, S. S. ed. (2016). Clinical Pathways in Emergency Medicine: Volume II. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Bosco, G., Matera, F., Ennser, K., Ibsen, M., Marazzi, L., Parmigiani, F., et al. (2012). “Experiments on Long-Haul High-Capacity Transmission Systems,” in Optical Transmission: The FP7 BONE Project Experience Signals and Communication Technology., eds. A. Teixeira and G. M. Tosi Beleffi (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 185–234.

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. (2015). There’s A Global Ocean Beneath The Surface Of Enceladus. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/cassinis-ocean-rg-editing/ [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 (1990). Management Improvements Essential for Key Automated Systems at the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. 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

Wang, T. (2013). Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006). justices uphold most remapping in texas by g.o.p. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Stewart, 2015; Vasquez and Martin, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Vasquez and Martin, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Sorek et al., 2007)

About the journal

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

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