How to format your references using the Frontiers in Diabetes citation style

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

Wang, Q. (2015). China’s scientists must engage the public on GM. Nature 519, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gfeller, A., and Farmer, E. E. (2004). Keeping the leaves green above us. Science 306, 1515–1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers Hollingsworth, J., Müller, K. H., and Hollingsworth, E. J. (2008). China: The end of the science superpowers. Nature 454, 412–413.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dollar, G. L., Weber, U., Mlodzik, M., and Sokol, S. Y. (2005). Regulation of Lethal giant larvae by Dishevelled. Nature 437, 1376–1380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayuk, J. L., Healey, J., Rohmeyer, P., Sachs, M. H., Schmidt, J., and Weiss, J. (2012). Cyber Security Policy Guidebook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Franconi, E., Kifer, M., and May, W. eds. (2007). The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 4th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, June 3-7, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gautschi, H., and Gautschi, D. (2016). “What Contexts Could Be?,” in Technological Innovation and Economic Transformation: A Method for Contextual Analysis, ed. D. Gautschi (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US), 121–155.

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 Diabetes.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). How Can We Tell What Color An Extinct Animal Was? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-tell-what-color-extinct-animal-was/ (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 (1977). Review of a Contract for Mobile Radio Sets for the Army. 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

Anderson, P. M. (2012). Persistent Genomic Consequences of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Measured in Adolescent Rat Brain. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006). Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times, 14LI9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gfeller and Farmer, 2004; Wang, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gfeller and Farmer, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dollar et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Diabetes
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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