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

Nedergaard, M. (2013). Neuroscience. Garbage truck of the brain. Science 340, 1529–1530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gal-Yam, A., and Leonard, D. C. (2009). A massive hypergiant star as the progenitor of the supernova SN 2005gl. Nature 458, 865–867.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fay, J. C., Wyckoff, G. J., and Wu, C.-I. (2002). Testing the neutral theory of molecular evolution with genomic data from Drosophila. Nature 415, 1024–1026.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fu, Q., Johanson, C. M., Warren, S. G., and Seidel, D. J. (2004). Contribution of stratospheric cooling to satellite-inferred tropospheric temperature trends. Nature 429, 55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson, M. D. (2013). An Employer’s and Engineer’s Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Rjasanow, S. (2007). The Fast Solution of Boundary Integral Equations., ed. O. Steinbach. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwarzwald, H., Collins, E. M., Gillespie, S., and Spinks-Franklin, A. I. A. (2015). “Future Health Implications,” in International Adoption and Clinical Practice, eds. E. M. Collins, S. Gillespie, and A. I. A. Spinks-Franklin (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 49–54.

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. (2016). You Can Now 3D Print Your Own Cosmic Microwave Background. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-can-now-3d-print-your-own-cosmic-microwave-background/ (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 (1991). Attack Warning: Costs to Modernize NORAD’s Computer System Significantly Understated. 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

Malkus, N. (2012). Beneath the district averages: Intradistrict differences in teacher compensation expenditures. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Saslow, L. (2007). List of Weak Schools Claims 2, Removes One. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nedergaard, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gal-Yam and Leonard, 2009; Nedergaard, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gal-Yam and Leonard, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Fu et al., 2004)

About the journal

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