How to format your references using the Frontiers in Experimental Endocrinology citation style

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

Grayson, M. (2011). Biofuels. Nature 474, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen, Y., and Ho, L. C. (2014). The diversity of quasars unified by accretion and orientation. Nature 513, 210–213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thompson, J. K., Rainville, S., and Pritchard, D. E. (2004). Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces. Nature 430, 58–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Behrenfeld, M. J., O’Malley, R. T., Siegel, D. A., McClain, C. R., Sarmiento, J. L., Feldman, G. C., et al. (2006). Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity. Nature 444, 752–755.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigrist, J.-F. (2015). Fluid-Structure Interaction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hinchey, M., and Coyle, L. eds. (2012). Conquering Complexity. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dunger, D. B., Salgin, B., and Ong, K. K. (2009). “Early Childhood Contributions to Insulin Resistance,” in Insulin Resistance: Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease, eds. P. S. Zeitler and K. J. Nadeau (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press), 81–92.

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 Experimental Endocrinology.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2015). What’s The Most Dangerous Contact Sport In The World? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/medical-experts-find-boxing-more-dangerous-mma0/ (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 (2016). School Choice: Private School Choice Programs Are Growing and Can Complicate Providing Certain Federally Funded Services to Eligible Students. 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

Savvas, C. (2010). Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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. (2010). Exclusive Club? Not Anymore. New York Times, B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Grayson, 2011; Shen and Ho, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shen and Ho, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Behrenfeld et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Experimental Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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