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

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

Carlson, E. W. (2015). Condensed-matter physics: Charge topology in superconductors. Nature 525, 329–330.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baldwin, M. P., and Dunkerton, T. J. (2001). Stratospheric harbingers of anomalous weather regimes. Science 294, 581–584.

A journal article with 3 authors

Raymond, S. N., Mandell, A. M., and Sigurdsson, S. (2006). Exotic Earths: forming habitable worlds with giant planet migration. Science 313, 1413–1416.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song, Y. Y., Ye, M., Li, C., He, X., Zhu-Salzman, K., Wang, R. L., et al. (2014). Hijacking common mycorrhizal networks for herbivore-induced defence signal transfer between tomato plants. Sci. Rep. 4, 3915.

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

Thompson, W. M. O. ed. (2011). The Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) Interaction with Geminivirus-Infected Host Plants: Bemisia tabaci, Host Plants and Geminiviruses. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Gupta, A., and Al-Ahmad, A. (2011). “Case 5,” in Cardiac Electrophysiology: Clinical Case Review, eds. A. Natale, A. Al-Ahmad, P. J. Wang, and J. DiMarco (London: Springer), 19–21.

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 Ethnopharmacology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Expert Committee Finds Genetically Engineered Crops Are As Safe To Eat As Conventionally Bred Plants. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/expert-committee-finds-ge-crops-are-safe-eat-conventionally-bred-plants/ [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 (2013). In-Car Location-Based Services: Companies Are Taking Steps to Protect Privacy, but Some Risks May Not Be Clear to Consumers. 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

Carver, J. R. (2009). CMO: Chief Marketing Officer or chief “marginalized” officer.

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

Saslow, L. (2006). Jets Overhead, Noise Complaints Below. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carlson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Baldwin and Dunkerton, 2001; Carlson, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Baldwin and Dunkerton, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Ethnopharmacology
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology