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

Gibbons, A. (2015). Archaeology. Humans may have reached Chile by 18,500 years ago. Science 350, 898.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zubkov, M. V., and Tarran, G. A. (2008). High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature 455, 224–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackermann, M., Stearns, S. C., and Jenal, U. (2003). Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division. Science 300, 1920.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dubrova, Y. E., Plumb, M., Gutierrez, B., Boulton, E., and Jeffreys, A. J. (2000). Transgenerational mutation by radiation. Nature 405, 37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdullaeva, Z. (2017). Nano- and Biomaterials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Garvis, S. (2012). Whisperings from the Corridors: Stories of Teachers in Higher Education., ed. R. Dwyer. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Odendall, C., and Kagan, J. C. (2013). “Peroxisomes and the Antiviral Responses of Mammalian Cells,” in Peroxisomes and their Key Role in Cellular Signaling and Metabolism, ed. L. A. del Río (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 67–75.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Adorable Baby Pygmy Hippo Born At Melbourne Zoo. 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 (1978). Policy and Procedures Pertaining to Procurement of ADP Equipment. 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

Stevenson, C. L. (2008). Availability and seasonal use of diurnal roosts by Rafinesque’s big-eared bat and southeastern myotis in bottomland hardwoods of Mississippi. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Kelly, S. (1998). Miss. Loves Nev. New York Times, 732.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibbons, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Zubkov and Tarran, 2008; Gibbons, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zubkov and Tarran, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Dubrova et al., 2000)

About the journal

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