How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cardiac Electrophysiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Cardiac Electrophysiology. 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

Fukatsu, T. (2010). Evolution. A fungal past to insect color. Science 328, 574–575.

A journal article with 2 authors

Michaelis, S., and Hrycyna, C. A. (2013). Biochemistry. A protease for the ages. Science 339, 1529–1530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavrentovich, O. D., Lazo, I., and Pishnyak, O. P. (2010). Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal. Nature 467, 947–950.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen, J., Liang, Z., Wang, W., Yi, C., Zhang, S., and Zhang, Q. (2014). Revealing origin of decrease in potency of darunavir and amprenavir against HIV-2 relative to HIV-1 protease by molecular dynamics simulations. Sci. Rep. 4, 6872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mahlberg, R., Gilles, A., and Läsch, A. (2004). Hämatologie. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Uckelmann, D., Harrison, M., and Michahelles, F. eds. (2011). Architecting the Internet of Things. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Golovach, P. A., Paulusma, D., and Song, J. (2012). “Closing Complexity Gaps for Coloring Problems on H-Free Graphs,” in Algorithms and Computation: 23rd International Symposium, ISAAC 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, December 19-21, 2012. Proceedings, eds. K.-M. Chao, T.-S. Hsu, and D.-T. Lee (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 14–23.

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 Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017). How The Brain Helps The Body Fight Bacteria. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-the-brain-helps-the-body-fight-bacteria/ (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 (1986). Data Processing: SBA Needs To Strengthen Management of Its Computer Systems. 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

Lee, B. K. (2015). Tracking of truck flows for drayage efficiency analysis. 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

Williams, J. (2016). If It Ain’t Broke. New York Times, BR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fukatsu, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Fukatsu, 2010; Michaelis and Hrycyna, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Michaelis and Hrycyna, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cardiac Electrophysiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)