How to format your references using the Frontiers in Gastrointestinal Cancers citation style

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

Kreeger, K. (2002). Working your way into industry. Nature 419, 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rui, G., and Zhan, Q. (2014). Highly sensitive beam steering with plasmonic antenna. Sci. Rep. 4, 5962.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaufman, Y. J., Tanré, D., and Boucher, O. (2002). A satellite view of aerosols in the climate system. Nature 419, 215–223.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vik, U., Logares, R., Blaalid, R., Halvorsen, R., Carlsen, T., Bakke, I., et al. (2013). Different bacterial communities in ectomycorrhizae and surrounding soil. Sci. Rep. 3, 3471.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bullard, B. (2016). Style and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Benth, F. E. (2013). Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2013: Editors: Vicky Henderson, Ronnie Sircar. , eds. D. Crisan, P. Guasoni, K. Manolarakis, J. Muhle-Karbe, C. Nee, and P. Protter Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Caravagna, G., Bortolussi, L., and Sanguinetti, G. (2016). “Matching Models Across Abstraction Levels with Gaussian Processes,” in Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 14th International Conference, CMSB 2016, Cambridge, UK, September 21-23, 2016, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. E. Bartocci, P. Lio, and N. Paoletti (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 49–66.

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 Gastrointestinal Cancers.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Extremely Rare Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid Shot In Canadian Arctic. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extremely-rare-grizzly-polar-bear-hybrid-shot-canadian-arctic/ [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). Aviation Security: Airport Perimeter and Access Control Security Would Benefit from Risk Assessment and Strategy Updates. 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

Mazyck, B. S. (2012). Leadership behavior and teacher attrition: A qualitative phenomenological inquiry of job satisfaction.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008). Supreme Court Restricts the Taxation of Income of Companies Based Out of State. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kreeger, 2002; Rui and Zhan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rui and Zhan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Vik et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Gastrointestinal Cancers
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology