How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cancer Imaging and Diagnosis citation style

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

Dulac, C. (2010). Brain function and chromatin plasticity. Nature 465, 728–735.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vohr, S. H., and Green, R. E. (2015). Development. Aneuploidy and mother’s genes. Science 348, 180–181.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krauss, L. M., Dodelson, S., and Meyer, S. (2010). Primordial gravitational waves and cosmology. Science 328, 989–992.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stevenson, R. M., Young, R. J., Atkinson, P., Cooper, K., Ritchie, D. A., and Shields, A. J. (2006). A semiconductor source of triggered entangled photon pairs. Nature 439, 179–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner, H., and Belack, C. (2010). Managing Complex Projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Weintraub, A., Romero, C., Bjørndal, T., Epstein, R., and Miranda, J. eds. (2007). Handbook Of Operations Research In Natural Resources. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Martínez, L., Rodriguez, R. M., and Herrera, F. (2015). “Decision Making with Unbalanced Linguistic Information,” in The 2-tuple Linguistic Model: Computing with Words in Decision Making, eds. R. M. Rodriguez and F. Herrera (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 83–112.

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 Imaging and Diagnosis.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016). How A Nasty, Brain-Eating Parasite Could Help Us Fight Cancer. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-a-nasty-braineating-parasite-could-help-us-fight-cancer/ (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 (2004). Federal Research: Information on DOE’s Laboratory-Directed R&D Program. 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

Tse, J. (2009). An explication of the Hilbert basis theorem and its relation to school mathematics. 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

Cave, D., and Kwai, I. (2017). Drug Trafficker and Australian Obsession Returns Home. 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 (Dulac, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Dulac, 2010; Vohr and Green, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Vohr and Green, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Stevenson et al., 2006)

About the journal

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