How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cellular Endocrinology citation style

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

Kaelin, W. G., Jr (2012). Molecular biology. Use and abuse of RNAi to study mammalian gene function. Science 337, 421–422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richmond, T. J., and Davey, C. A. (2003). The structure of DNA in the nucleosome core. Nature 423, 145–150.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santer, B. D., Wigley, T. M. L., and Taylor, K. E. (2011). The reproducibility of observational estimates of surface and atmospheric temperature change. Science 334, 1232–1233.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gilbert, W. V., Zhou, K., Butler, T. K., and Doudna, J. A. (2007). Cap-independent translation is required for starvation-induced differentiation in yeast. Science 317, 1224–1227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, L. C. R., Hodgetts, C. T. J., Mahoney, C. P. F., and Castle, N. (2010). Disaster Rules. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Bhattacharya, B. S., and Chowdhury, F. N. eds. (2015). Validating Neuro-Computational Models of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders., 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Luo, M., Zheng, Q., and Liu, J. (2016). “Distributed Extreme Learning Machine with Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier,” in Proceedings of ELM-2015 Volume 2: Theory, Algorithms and Applications (II), eds. J. Cao, K. Mao, J. Wu, and A. Lendasse (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 43–54.

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 Cellular Endocrinology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). How The Moon Got Its Tilt Explained By New Model. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-the-moon-got-its-tilt-explained-by-new-model/ (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 (1992). Mass Transit Grants: Noncompliance and Misspent Funds by Two Grantees in UMTA’s New York Region. 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

Akiyama, K. M. (2017). Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status. 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

Flegenheimer, M. (2013). C Train Cafe? The M.T.A. May Put Up a Fight. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaelin, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Richmond and Davey, 2003; Kaelin, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Richmond and Davey, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gilbert et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cellular Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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