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

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

Eberhard, W. G. (2000). Spider manipulation by a wasp larva. Nature 406, 255–256.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rohde, P. P., and Dowling, J. P. (2015). QUANTUM OPTICS. The on-ramp to the all-optical quantum information processing highway. Science 349, 696.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morris, M., Uchida, K., and Do, T. (2006). A magnetic torsional wave near the Galactic Centre traced by a “double helix” nebula. Nature 440, 308–310.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Neese, B., Chu, B., Lu, S.-G., Wang, Y., Furman, E., and Zhang, Q. M. (2008). Large electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric polymers near room temperature. Science 321, 821–823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olsson, A. (2005). Understanding Changing Telecommunications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Avraham, E. (2016). Tourism Marketing for Developing Countries: Battling Stereotypes and Crises in Asia, Africa and the Middle East., ed. E. Ketter. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

He, M., and Lu, T.-M. (2012). “Cu-Dielectric Interfaces,” in Metal-Dielectric Interfaces in Gigascale Electronics: Thermal and Electrical Stability, ed. T.-M. Lu (New York, NY: Springer), 57–74.

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 of Aging.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Facebook’s New Data Center in Fort Worth will Give Energy Back to the People of Texas. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/facebooks-new-data-center-fort-worth-will-give-energy-back-people-texas/ (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 (2010). Aviation Safety: Preliminary Information on Aircraft Icing and Winter Operations. 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

Platt, J. B. (2008). Feast in the time of terror: Stalinist temporal paradox and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Rueck, K. (1972). “ LITTLE TIME FOR EXTRAS”; What’s a Stewardess. New York Times, travel and resorts-summer vacations-part 1XX4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eberhard, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Eberhard, 2000; Rohde and Dowling, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rohde and Dowling, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Neese et al., 2008)

About the journal

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