How to format your references using the Frontiers in Exercise Physiology citation style

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

Dalton, R. (2000). Los Alamos “loses” key weapons data. Nature 405, 725.

A journal article with 2 authors

D’Souza, V., and Summers, M. F. (2004). Structural basis for packaging the dimeric genome of Moloney murine leukaemia virus. Nature 431, 586–590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reimand, J., Wagih, O., and Bader, G. D. (2013). The mutational landscape of phosphorylation signaling in cancer. Sci. Rep. 3, 2651.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Son, S.-W., Polvani, L. M., Waugh, D. W., Akiyoshi, H., Garcia, R., Kinnison, D., et al. (2008). The impact of stratospheric ozone recovery on the Southern Hemisphere westerly jet. Science 320, 1486–1489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Otto, M. (2016). Chemometrics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Sack, H., Blomqvist, E., d’Aquin, M., Ghidini, C., Ponzetto, S. P., and Lange, C. eds. (2016). The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains: 13th International Conference, ESWC 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 -- June 2, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Escalera, S., Baró, X., Pujol, O., Vitrià, J., and Radeva, P. (2011). “Traffic Sign Categorization,” in Traffic-Sign Recognition Systems, eds. X. Baró, O. Pujol, J. Vitrià, and P. Radeva (London: Springer), 53–80.

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 Exercise Physiology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016). Top NASA Climate Scientist Says Temperatures Are Rising At Fastest Rate In 1,000 Years. 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 (1992). Child Labor: Information on Federal Enforcement Efforts. 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

Marquez, H. H. (2017). Social Capital, Academics, and Sense of Belonging among High School Foster Youth. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2011). Two Rulings Find Cuts In Pensions Permissible. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton, 2000; D’Souza and Summers, 2004).

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

Two authors: (D’Souza and Summers, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Son et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Exercise Physiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)