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

Polyakov, V. B. (2009). Equilibrium iron isotope fractionation at core-mantle boundary conditions. Science 323, 912–914.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bliss, T., and Schoepfer, R. (2004). Neuroscience. Controlling the ups and downs of synaptic strength. Science 304, 973–974.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang, R.-Y., Li, G., and Yu, J.-Q. (2014). Conformation-induced remote meta-C-H activation of amines. Nature 507, 215–220.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Borchert, R., Renner, S. S., Calle, Z., Navarrete, D., Tye, A., Gautier, L., et al. (2005). Photoperiodic induction of synchronous flowering near the Equator. Nature 433, 627–629.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Forshaw, M. (2006). Understanding Headaches and Migraines. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cameron, R. (2008). Pro ASP.NET 3.5 Server Controls and AJAX Components., ed. D. Michalk. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

De Carvalho, J. C., Cardoso, L. C., Ghiggi, V., Woiciechowski, A. L., de Souza Vandenberghe, L. P., and Soccol, C. R. (2014). “Microbial Pigments,” in Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals, eds. S. K. Brar, G. S. Dhillon, and C. R. Soccol (New York, NY: Springer), 73–97.

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. (2014). Mysterious Signal Detected- Could It Be From Dark Matter? 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 (1997). National Airspace System: Questions Concerning FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System. 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

Chen, G. (2005). Essays On Using Weather Derivatives In Dairy Production. Columbus, OH: Ohio 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

Vecsey, G. (2010). Lost Notes Will Linger as Footsteps Fall. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Polyakov, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bliss and Schoepfer, 2004; Polyakov, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bliss and Schoepfer, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Borchert et al., 2005)

About the journal

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