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

McGee, H. (2013). Chemistry: A festive ferment. Nature 504, 372–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yurtsever, A., and Zewail, A. H. (2009). 4D nanoscale diffraction observed by convergent-beam ultrafast electron microscopy. Science 326, 708–712.

A journal article with 3 authors

Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Mechler, R., and Pflug, G. (2005). Refocusing disaster aid. Science 309, 1044–1046.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rusakov, D. A., Scimemi, A., Walker, M. C., and Kullmann, D. M. (2004). Comment on “Role of NMDA receptor subtypes in governing the direction of hippocampal synaptic plasticity.” Science 305, 1912; author reply.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan, Y., Wang, J., and Li, M. (2013). Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence Methods for Protein Bioinformatics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Anderluh, G., and Lakey, J. eds. (2010). Proteins Membrane Binding and Pore Formation. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Derwing, T. M., Fraser, H., Kang, O., and Thomson, R. I. (2014). “L2 Accent and Ethics: Issues that Merit Attention,” in Englishes in Multilingual Contexts: Language Variation and Education, eds. A. Mahboob and L. Barratt (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 63–80.

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. (2015). Brain-Eating Amoeba Strikes The U.S. Again. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/brain-eating-ameba-strikes-us-again/ (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 (1997). IRS Systems Security and Funding: Additional Information on Employee Browsing and Tax Systems Modernization. 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

Knoth, K. C. (2017). Biological Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: An Examination of an Introductory Level Implementation. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Qiu, L. (2017). What He Said She Said, and a Disquisition About Disclosures. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGee, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Yurtsever and Zewail, 2009; McGee, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yurtsever and Zewail, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Rusakov et al., 2004)

About the journal

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