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

Check, E. (2003). Biologists wary that cash up front could mean cuts later. Nature 421, 677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Radisky, D. C., and Bissell, M. J. (2004). Cancer. Respect thy neighbor! Science 303, 775–777.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, A., Dennis, C., and Campbell, P. (2007). Nature’s guide for mentors. Nature 447, 791–797.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Faraci, G., Pennisi, A. R., Alberti, A., Ruggeri, R., and Mannino, G. (2013). Giant photoluminescence emission in crystalline faceted Si grains. Sci. Rep. 3, 2674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xiu, L. (2012). Nanometer Frequency Synthesis Beyond the Phase-Locked Loop. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Soell, H. ed. (2014). Helmut Schmidt: Pioneer of International Economic and Financial Cooperation. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Simon, D. A., and Daw, N. D. (2012). “Dual-System Learning Models and Drugs of Abuse,” in Computational Neuroscience of Drug Addiction, eds. B. Gutkin and S. H. Ahmed (New York, NY: Springer), 145–161.

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

Andrews, R. (2016). Dengue Virus Is Zika’s Most Powerful Weapon – And Sometimes Its Greatest Weakness. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dengue-virus-is-zikas-most-powerful-weapon-and-sometimes-its-greatest-weakness/ (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 (1986). Status of the Marine Corps Integrated Fire and Air Support 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

Edwards, G. (2010). Effects of at-home reading activities and parental involvement on classroom communication arts assessments: Focus on the high school level. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Crow, K. (2002). Is There a Little Bistro Inside All That Construction? New York Times, 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2003; Radisky and Bissell, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Radisky and Bissell, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Faraci et al., 2013)

About the journal

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