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

Baker, A. C. (2001). Reef corals bleach to survive change. Nature 411, 765–766.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, C. R., and Baker, L. A. (2005). Materials science. Expanding the molecular electronics toolbox. Science 309, 67–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hart, G. W., Housley, M. P., and Slawson, C. (2007). Cycling of O-linked beta-N-acetylglucosamine on nucleocytoplasmic proteins. Nature 446, 1017–1022.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zheng, H., Liu, Y., Cao, F., Wu, S., Jia, S., Cao, A., et al. (2013). Electron beam-assisted healing of nanopores in magnesium alloys. Sci. Rep. 3, 1920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moll, W., and Moll, A. (2011). Schallschutz im Wohnungsbau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kotzé, P., Marsden, G., Lindgaard, G., Wesson, J., and Winckler, M. eds. (2013). Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013: 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Masera, M., Stefanini, A., and Dondossola, G. (2006). “The Security of Information and Communication Systems and the E+I Paradigm,” in Critical Infrastructures at Risk: Securing the European Electric Power System, eds. A. V. Gheorghe, M. Masera, M. Weijnen, and D. L. Vries (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 85–116.

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

Fang, J. (2015). Nectar Bat With Insanely Long Tongue Found in Bolivia. 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 (1999). U.S. Airports: Selected Airports’ Views on Federal Requirements. 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

Holvick-Norton, T. (2015). Becoming Whole: The Process of Individuation for Women and Their Bodies. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Brantley, B. (2016). Theater; Dancer Plays a Dancer. New York Times, AR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Baker, 2001; Martin and Baker, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Baker, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2013)

About the journal

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