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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Working for peanuts. Nature 425, 323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drain, P. K., and Barry, M. (2010). Global health. Fifty years of U.S. embargo: Cuba’s health outcomes and lessons. Science 328, 572–573.

A journal article with 3 authors

Solomon, B. R., Hyder, M. N., and Varanasi, K. K. (2014). Separating oil-water nanoemulsions using flux-enhanced hierarchical membranes. Sci. Rep. 4, 5504.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hernández, P. A., Notsu, K., Salazar, J. M., Mori, T., Natale, G., Okada, H., et al. (2001). Carbon dioxide degassing by advective flow from Usu volcano, Japan. Science 292, 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niemi, V., and Nyberg, K. (2006). Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vickers, L. (2015). Fire-Resistant Geopolymers: Role of Fibres and Fillers to Enhance Thermal Properties., eds. A. van Riessen and W. D. A. Rickard. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Grassom, B. (2016). “Dream and Semblance: The Play of Art and Life,” in The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination, eds. A.-T. Tymieniecka and P. Trutty-Coohill (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 59–71.

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, D. (2015). Watch A Red-Hot Ball Of Nickel Melt A Bowl Of Jello From The Inside Out. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/watch-boiling-hot-nickel-ball-melt-bowl-jello-inside-out/ (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 (1987). Bilingual Education: A New Look at the Research Evidence. 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

Serrano, M. (2017). Bilingual Sentiment Analysis of Spanglish Tweets. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Rojas, R. (2015). N.Y.U. Takes Cosby’s Name Off Workshop About Film. New York Times, A28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2003; Drain and Barry, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Drain and Barry, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hernández et al., 2001)

About the journal

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