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

Schaffer, S. (2011). The laird of physics. Nature 471, 289–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens, R. C., and Wilson, I. A. (2001). Tech.Sight. Industrializing structural biology. Science 293, 519–520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rakitzis, T. P., van den Brom, A. J., and Janssen, M. H. M. (2004). Directional dynamics in the photodissociation of oriented molecules. Science 303, 1852–1854.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., Xu, C., Hong, Y., Lu, H., Wu, J., et al. (2014). Association between serum free fatty acid levels and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a cross-sectional study. Sci. Rep. 4, 5832.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkateshan, S. P. (2015). Mechanical Measurements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bauer, J. W., and Dolan, E. M. eds. (2011). Rural Families and Work: Context and Problems. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu, J. (2015). “Adoption of Mobile Technology in Higher Education: Introduction,” in Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning, ed. Y. (aimee) Zhang (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 331–336.

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

Hale, T. (2016). Intelligence Plays A Major Role In How Good You Are At Chess. 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 (1980). Use of Computerized Information for Local and National Health Care Planning Purposes. 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

Dinh, W. (2009). Elderly Vietnamese’ perceptions of the effects of Adult Day Health Care services on their mental and physical well-being. 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

Hollander, S. (2000). Competition and Camaraderie for Gay Athletes. New York Times, 84.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schaffer, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Stevens and Wilson, 2001; Schaffer, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Stevens and Wilson, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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