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

Hameed, S. (2008). Science and religion. Bracing for Islamic creationism. Science 322, 1637–1638.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roll-Mecak, A., and Vale, R. D. (2008). Structural basis of microtubule severing by the hereditary spastic paraplegia protein spastin. Nature 451, 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haas, W., Shepard, B. D., and Gilmore, M. S. (2002). Two-component regulator of Enterococcus faecalis cytolysin responds to quorum-sensing autoinduction. Nature 415, 84–87.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hamilton, J. T. G., McRoberts, W. C., Keppler, F., Kalin, R. M., and Harper, D. B. (2003). Chloride methylation by plant pectin: an efficient environmentally significant process. Science 301, 206–209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Godula-Jopek, A., Jehle, W., and Wellnitz, J. (2012). Hydrogen Storage Technologies. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Pochet, Y. (2006). Production Planning by Mixed Integer Programming. , ed. L. A. Wolsey New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

de Blasio, G., Moreno-Díaz, R., and Moreno-Díaz, R. (2009). “Analytical Representation of Intrinsic Directionality in Retinal Cells,” in Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2009: 12th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 15-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. R. Moreno-Díaz, F. Pichler, and A. Quesada-Arencibia (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 33–40.

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). Meet Bowie, The Rescue Koala With Different Colored Eyes. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-bowie-the-rescue-koala-with-different-colored-eyes/ [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 (2007). Business Modernization: NASA Must Consider Agencywide Needs to Reap the Full Benefits of Its Enterprise Management System Modernization Effort. 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

Walsh, M. A. (2010). Passage.

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

Koblin, J. (2016). That Padres Pitcher, She’s Got a Mean Screwball. New York Times, AR118.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hameed, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hameed, 2008; Roll-Mecak and Vale, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Roll-Mecak and Vale, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hamilton et al., 2003)

About the journal

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

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