How to format your references using the Frontiers in Clinical and Translational Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Clinical and Translational Physiology. 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

Gershon, D. (2003). Mass spectrometry goes mainstream. Nature 424, 581.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeVore, N. M., and Scott, E. E. (2012). Structures of cytochrome P450 17A1 with prostate cancer drugs abiraterone and TOK-001. Nature 482, 116–119.

A journal article with 3 authors

Royden, L. H., Burchfiel, B. C., and van der Hilst, R. D. (2008). The geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau. Science 321, 1054–1058.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu, L.-M., Mao, L.-F., Yang, T., Ye, J.-F., Liu, B., Li, H.-L., et al. (2018). Evolutionary history of the angiosperm flora of China. Nature 554, 234–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cross, M., and MacDonald, B. (2008). Nutrition in Institutions. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Górski, J. ed. (2006). Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security: 25th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2006, Gdansk, Poland, September 27-29, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Saeidnia, S., Gohari, A. R., Manayi, A., and Kourepaz-Mahmoodabadi, M. (2016). “Biological and Pharmacological Activity,” in Satureja: Ethnomedicine, Phytochemical Diversity and Pharmacological Activities, eds. A. R. Gohari, A. Manayi, and M. Kourepaz-Mahmoodabadi (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 41–56.

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 Clinical and Translational Physiology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Charge Gadgets Just By Walking. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/charge-gadgets-just-walking/ (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 (1986). Contract Pricing: Subcontractor Prices Overstated on AN/TSQ-111 Communications Contract. 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

Sharma, S. P. (2017). U.S. Government Program Managers’ Competencies to Manage Satellite Acquisition Programs. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Feeney, K. (2008). For Takeout, A Tasty Oasis At a Mall. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2003; DeVore and Scott, 2012).

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

Two authors: (DeVore and Scott, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Clinical and Translational Physiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)