How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cancer Molecular Targets and Therapeutics citation style

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

Sharon, E. (2012). Materials science. Swell approaches for changing polymer shapes. Science 335, 1179–1180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eeva, T., and Lehikoinen, E. (2000). Recovery of breeding success in wild birds. Nature 403, 851–852.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gwynne, D. T., Judge, K. A., and Kelly, C. D. (2010). Evidence for male allocation in pipefish? Nature 466, E11; discussion E12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shuster, D. L., Ehlers, T. A., Rusmoren, M. E., and Farley, K. A. (2005). Rapid glacial erosion at 1.8 Ma revealed by 4He/3He thermochronometry. Science 310, 1668–1670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruske, W. (1971). Verlag Chemie 1921-1971. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Noor, T. H. (2014). Trust Management in Cloud Services., eds. Q. Z. Sheng and A. Bouguettaya. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Monaghan, K. G., and Van Dyke, D. L. (2006). “Laboratory Testing for Prader-Willi Syndrome,” in Management of Prader-Willi Syndrome, eds. M. G. Butler, P. D. K. Lee, and B. Y. Whitman (New York, NY: Springer), 74–93.

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 Molecular Targets and Therapeutics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Not Too Brutish: Neanderthals Hunted Pigeons. 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 (1998). Airport Financing: Information on Airport Fees Paid by Airlines. 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

Peterson, N. R. (2015). Subspecies composition, genetic variation and structure of Largemouth Bass in Puerto Rico reservoirs. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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

Ryerson, J. (2017). University Presses. New York Times, BR27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sharon, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Eeva and Lehikoinen, 2000; Sharon, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Eeva and Lehikoinen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Shuster et al., 2005)

About the journal

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