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

Cherry, M. (2000). Construction starts on largest telescope in the south. Nature 407, 4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helin, K., and Dhanak, D. (2013). Chromatin proteins and modifications as drug targets. Nature 502, 480–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cymes, G. D., Ni, Y., and Grosman, C. (2005). Probing ion-channel pores one proton at a time. Nature 438, 975–980.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu, K., Heng, X., Garyu, L., Monti, S., Garcia, E. L., Kharytonchyk, S., et al. (2011). NMR detection of structures in the HIV-1 5’-leader RNA that regulate genome packaging. Science 334, 242–245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baines, P., Ferraro, J., and Rogers, P. (2010). The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Degano, P., and Gorrieri, R. eds. (2009). Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 7th International Conference, CMSB 2009, Bologna, Italy, August 31-September 1, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hougardy, S., and Vygen, J. (2016). “Approximate Representations of the Real Numbers,” in Algorithmic Mathematics, ed. J. Vygen (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 49–56.

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

Davis, J. (2016). C-Sections Might Be Altering Human Evolution. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/csections-might-be-altering-human-evolution/ (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 (2011). Rail Security: TSA Improved Risk Assessment but Could Further Improve Training and Information Sharing. 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

Mihalcin, D. (2008). A comparison of the Children’s Functional Assessment Rating Scale and the Child Behavior Checklist used in a wraparound program. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Koblin, J., and Barnes, B. (2017). Hulu’s Chief Since 2013 Quits to Lead Sony TV Unit. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cherry, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cherry, 2000; Helin and Dhanak, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Helin and Dhanak, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2011)

About the journal

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