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

Stafford, N. (2006). Angling saxons. Nature 441, 931.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lutz, W., and Kc, S. (2011). Global human capital: integrating education and population. Science 333, 587–592.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, J.-E., Chen, J., and Lou, Z. (2008). DBC1 is a negative regulator of SIRT1. Nature 451, 583–586.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao, W., Ye, L., Zhang, S., Fan, B., Sun, M., and Hou, J. (2014). Ultrathin polyaniline-based buffer layer for highly efficient polymer solar cells with wide applicability. Sci. Rep. 4, 6570.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gunn, A., and Pitt, S. J. (2012). Parasitology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Verger, A., Novelli, M., Mundy, K., Eickelberg, A., Grant, L., Hilgersom, S., et al. eds. (2012). Campaigning for “Education for All”: Histories, Strategies and Outcomes of Transnational Advocacy Coalitions in Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Miles, I. (2013). “Interactive Impacts – Foresight as a Product, Service and Coproduction Process,” in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future: Potentials and Limits of Foresight Studies, eds. D. Meissner, L. Gokhberg, and A. Sokolov (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 63–81.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). Beer Waste Used To Make Bones. 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 (1985). The Department of Education’s Actions To Collect Defaulted Student Loans. 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

Cope, J. A. (2015). Coastal squeeze of vegetation zones in the Los Cerritos Wetlands: The effect of sea level rise. 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

Carter, D. T. (2016). What Donald Trump Owes George Wallace. New York Times, SR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stafford, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Stafford, 2006; Lutz and Kc, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Lutz and Kc, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2014)

About the journal

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