How to format your references using the Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine citation style

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

Bhattacharya, S. (2014). Science in court: Disease detectives. Nature 506, 424–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boal, A. K., and Rosenzweig, A. C. (2012). Biochemistry. A radical route for nitrogenase carbide insertion. Science 337, 1617–1618.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, Z. X., Cifelli, R. L., and Kielan-Jaworowska, Z. (2001). Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals. Nature 409, 53–57.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hinnebusch, B. J., Rudolph, A. E., Cherepanov, P., Dixon, J. E., Schwan, T. G., and Forsberg, A. (2002). Role of Yersinia murine toxin in survival of Yersinia pestis in the midgut of the flea vector. Science 296, 733–735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abutarbush, S. M. (2015). Illustrated Guide to Equine Diseases. Ames, Iowa, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cherry, S. R. (2006). PET: Physics, Instrumentation, and Scanners., eds. M. Dahlbom and M. E. Phelps. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rémy, B., Thuillier, A., and Werner, A. (2015). “Bruhat-Tits Buildings and Analytic Geometry,” in Berkovich Spaces and Applications, eds. A. Ducros, C. Favre, and J. Nicaise (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 141–202.

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 Computational Physiology and Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). A New View of the Milky Way. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-view-milky-way/ (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 (2002). Business Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Better Balance Management Capacity with System Acquisition Workload. 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

Yu, W. (2012). Impacts of storms and sea-level rise on coastal evolution between two capes: Onslow Bay, North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Goldman, R. (2017). Saudis Arrest Woman Seen In Miniskirt In Video Clip. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bhattacharya, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Boal and Rosenzweig, 2012; Bhattacharya, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Boal and Rosenzweig, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hinnebusch et al., 2002)

About the journal

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