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

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

Leadlay PF. Structural biology: enzyme assembly line pictured. Nature (2014) 510:482–483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheth U, Parker R. Decapping and decay of messenger RNA occur in cytoplasmic processing bodies. Science (2003) 300:805–808.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childers SE, Ciufo S, Lovley DR. Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis. Nature (2002) 416:767–769.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Allwood DA, Xiong G, Faulkner CC, Atkinson D, Petit D, Cowburn RP. Magnetic domain-wall logic. Science (2005) 309:1688–1692.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eales L-J. Immunology for Life Scientists. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2005).

An edited book

Mastorakis N, Bulucea A, Tsekouras G eds. Computational Problems in Science and Engineering. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (2015). VII, 491 p. 215 illus., 90 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Landman NH, Klofak SM, Sarg KB. “Variation in Adult Size of Scaphitid Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formation.,” In: Harries PJ, editor. High-Resolution Approaches in Stratigraphic Paleontology. Topics in Geobiology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands (2008). p. 149–194

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 Endocrinology.

Blog post

Taub B. Most People Consume More Calories From Alcohol Than Sugary Drinks. IFLScience (2016)

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. National Airspace System: Assessment of FAA’s Efforts to Augment the Global Positioning System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (1995).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yahyai S. Optimization of a method for testing ballast water for enterococci and an investigation on the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in vibrio cholerae. [Doctoral dissertation]. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park. (2013).

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 LF. Neighbors Protest Flea Market’s Move to Belmont Park. New York Times (2007)14CN5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

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