How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cardiovascular and Smooth Muscle Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Cardiovascular and Smooth Muscle Pharmacology. 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

Zolla-Pazner, S. (2014). A critical question for HIV vaccine development: which antibodies to induce? Science 345, 167–168.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salzman, H., and Lowell, L. (2008). Making the grade. Nature 453, 28–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peng, Y., Maiolino, R., and Cochrane, R. (2015). Strangulation as the primary mechanism for shutting down star formation in galaxies. Nature 521, 192–195.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Voyles, J., Woodhams, D. C., Saenz, V., Byrne, A. Q., Perez, R., Rios-Sotelo, G., et al. (2018). Shifts in disease dynamics in a tropical amphibian assemblage are not due to pathogen attenuation. Science 359, 1517–1519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chase, C. W. (2016). Next Generation Demand Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Liberty, J. (2014). Pro Windows 8.1 Development with XAML and C#., eds. P. Japikse and J. Galloway. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Alessandro, C., and Léautier, F. (2016). “Leadership, Spirals, and Trajectories,” in Cities and Spaces of Leadership: A Geographical Perspective, ed. F. Léautier (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK), 54–76.

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 Cardiovascular and Smooth Muscle Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Why You Should Worry Less About Ebola And More About Measles. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-you-should-worry-less-about-ebola-and-more-about-measles/ (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 (1972). Whole-Body Irradiation Program at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and DOD’s Policy on the Use of Human Subjects for Medical Research. 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

Rountree, B. L. (2010). Theory and practice of dynamic voltage /frequency scaling in the high performance computing environment. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Grynbaum, M. M., and Ember, S. (2017). Who Will Inherit the Throne at Vanity Fair? New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zolla-Pazner, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Salzman and Lowell, 2008; Zolla-Pazner, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Salzman and Lowell, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Voyles et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cardiovascular and Smooth Muscle Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology