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

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

Mazzarello, P. (2000). What dreams may come? Nature 408, 523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simmons, L. W., and Roberts, B. (2005). Bacterial immunity traded for sperm viability in male crickets. Science 309, 2031.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robertson, W. H., Diken, E. G., and Johnson, M. A. (2003). Chemistry. Snapshots of water at work. Science 301, 320–321.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nemeth, E., Tuttle, M. S., Powelson, J., Vaughn, M. B., Donovan, A., Ward, D. M., et al. (2004). Hepcidin regulates cellular iron efflux by binding to ferroportin and inducing its internalization. Science 306, 2090–2093.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rao, K. R., Bojkovic, Z. S., and Milovanovic, D. A. (2005). Introduction to Multimedia Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bardosova, M., and Wagner, T. eds. (2015). Nanomaterials and Nanoarchitectures: A Complex Review of Current Hot Topics and their Applications., 1st ed. 2015. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lyons, D. E. (2009). “The Rational Continuum of Human Imitation,” in Mirror Neuron Systems: The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition, ed. J. A. Pineda (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press), 77–103.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013). Watch China’s lunar rover landing! IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-china’s-lunar-rover-landing/ (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 (1992). ADP: USDA Farm Service Agencies. 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

Burchman, E. K. (2014). A dialogue on improvisation, space and melody: Larry Koonse’s approach to improvisation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Billard, M. (2010). Top Hats, Bottom Prices. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mazzarello, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mazzarello, 2000; Simmons and Roberts, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Simmons and Roberts, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Nemeth et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Gastrointestinal Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology