How to format your references using the Frontiers in Drug Metabolism and Transport citation style

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

Butler, D. (2005). China rejects internet claims of human cases. Nature 435, 542–543.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alley, R. B., and Joughin, I. (2012). Climate change. Modeling ice-sheet flow. Science 336, 551–552.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoeppner, D. J., Hengartner, M. O., and Schnabel, R. (2001). Engulfment genes cooperate with ced-3 to promote cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 412, 202–206.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Day, J. J., Norman, D. B., Upchurch, P., and Powell, H. P. (2002). Dinosaur locomotion from a new trackway. Nature 415, 494–495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rankin, J. (2008). Effects of Antenatal Exercise on Psychological Well-Being, Pregnancy and Birth Outcome. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Whurr Publishers Ltd.

An edited book

Šimko, J. (2014). Semantic Acquisition Games: Harnessing Manpower for Creating Semantics., ed. M. Bieliková. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar, S., and Barai, S. V. (2011). “Crack Propagation Study Using Double-K and Double-G Fracture Parameters,” in Concrete Fracture Models and Applications, ed. S. V. Barai (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 113–192.

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 Drug Metabolism and Transport.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). NASA’s Comet Hitchhiker Could Explore The Solar System With A Harpoon And Tether. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-comet-hitchhiker-could-visit-multiple-solar-system-bodies-using-harpoon-and-tether/ (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 (2016). Electronic Health Information: HHS Needs to Strengthen Security and Privacy Guidance and Oversight. 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

Sharma, V. (2017). Functional Characterization of Na+/Ca2+ Exchangers in Caenorhabditis elegans. 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

Rich, N. (2013). Just Roll, Baby. New York Times, MM24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Butler, 2005; Alley and Joughin, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Alley and Joughin, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Day et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Drug Metabolism and Transport
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology