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

Miyamoto, K. (2014). Structural model of ubiquitin transfer onto an artificial RING finger as an E3 ligase. Sci. Rep. 4, 6574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scanziani, M., and Häusser, M. (2009). Electrophysiology in the age of light. Nature 461, 930–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moreira, J. A., Pacheco, J. M., and Santos, F. C. (2013). Evolution of collective action in adaptive social structures. Sci. Rep. 3, 1521.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Katayama, I., Hirauchi, K.-I., Michibayashi, K., and Ando, J.-I. (2009). Trench-parallel anisotropy produced by serpentine deformation in the hydrated mantle wedge. Nature 461, 1114–1117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kääriäinen, T., Cameron, D., Kääriäinen, M.-L., and Sherman, A. (2013). Atomic Layer Deposition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ábrahám, E., and Huisman, M. eds. (2016). Integrated Formal Methods: 12th International Conference, IFM 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 1-5, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dutykh, D., and Dias, F. (2007). “Water waves generated by a moving bottom,” in Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves, ed. A. Kundu (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 65–95.

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

Hale, T. (2015). Why You Should Never Wear Cheap, Unfitted Contact Lenses. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cost-wearing-cheap-contact-lenses/ [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 (1975). Federal Materials Research and Development: Modernizing Institutions and Management. 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

Andrus, A. K. (2017). Cellular and Proteomic Characterization of the Innate Immune Response in Wasting Bat Stars (Patiria miniata).

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. (2009). In Assessing Agassi, The Title Tells It All. New York Times, SP8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miyamoto, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Scanziani and Häusser, 2009; Miyamoto, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Scanziani and Häusser, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Katayama et al., 2009)

About the journal

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

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