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

Danger, B. (2007). Don’t stop me now. Nature 445, 334–335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rahman, M. A., and Halfar, J. (2014). First evidence of chitin in calcified coralline algae: new insights into the calcification process of Clathromorphum compactum. Sci. Rep. 4, 6162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pan, X., Liu, F., and Zhang, M. (2012). Comment on “Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness.” Science 335, 1441; author reply 1441.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vassylyev, D. G., Vassylyeva, M. N., Perederina, A., Tahirov, T. H., and Artsimovitch, I. (2007). Structural basis for transcription elongation by bacterial RNA polymerase. Nature 448, 157–162.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackford, R. (2012). Freedom of Religion and the Secular State. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Mobus, G. E. (2015). Principles of Systems Science., ed. M. C. Kalton. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

de Alfaro, L., da Silva, L. D., Faella, M., Legay, A., Roy, P., and Sorea, M. (2005). “Sociable Interfaces,” in Frontiers of Combining Systems: 5th International Workshop, FroCoS 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 19-21, 2005. Proceedings, ed. B. Gramlich (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 81–105.

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. (2015). How Long Does It Take To Get An Autism Diagnosis? 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 (1989). Federal Research: The SEMATECH Consortium’s Start-up Activities. 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

Drake, D. A. (2013). Viscoelastic characterization of vapor-grown carbon nanofiber/vinyl ester nanocomposites using a response surface methodology. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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. (2007). Spanish Cuisine (From Scratch). New York Times, NJ14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Danger, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Danger, 2007; Rahman and Halfar, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rahman and Halfar, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Vassylyev et al., 2007)

About the journal

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