How to format your references using the Frontiers in Fatty Acid and Lipid Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Fatty Acid and Lipid 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

Daily, G. C. (2001). Ecological forecasts. Nature 411, 245.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tao, Y. J., and Zheng, W. (2012). Biochemistry. Visualizing the influenza genome. Science 338, 1545–1546.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bouchard, M. J., Wang, L. H., and Schneider, R. J. (2001). Calcium signaling by HBx protein in hepatitis B virus DNA replication. Science 294, 2376–2378.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tomasello, M. V., Perra, N., Tessone, C. J., Karsai, M., and Schweitzer, F. (2014). The role of endogenous and exogenous mechanisms in the formation of R&D networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 5679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

James, L. (2014). Sustainability Footprints in SMEs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moulaert, T., and Garon, S. eds. (2016). Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison: Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kamer, S., and Atasoy, B. M. (2013). “Mechanisms of Resistance to Radiation,” in Principles and Practice of Modern Radiotherapy Techniques in Breast Cancer, eds. A. Haydaroglu and G. Ozyigit (New York, NY: Springer), 49–57.

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 Fatty Acid and Lipid Physiology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Male Contraceptive Jab Shown To Be 96 Percent Effective. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/male-contraceptive-jab-shown-to-be-96-percent-effective/ (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 (1978). Update of Economic Analysis of Impact Aid Program Reflecting the Educational Amendments of 1974. 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

Mahan, C. P. (2010). First to the finish line: A case study of first generation baccalaureate degree completers in the University of Maryland Student Support Services program. 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

Steel, E. (2017). On the Cusp Of a Capstone. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Daily, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Daily, 2001; Tao and Zheng, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Tao and Zheng, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Tomasello et al., 2014)

About the journal

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