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

Shi, S. H. (2001). Amersham Biosciences & Science Prize. AMPA receptor dynamics and synaptic plasticity. Science 294, 1851–1852.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nacher, J. C., and Akutsu, T. (2013). Structural controllability of unidirectional bipartite networks. Sci. Rep. 3, 1647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumar, G., Tang, H. X., and Schroers, J. (2009). Nanomoulding with amorphous metals. Nature 457, 868–872.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Trajkovic, K., Hsu, C., Chiantia, S., Rajendran, L., Wenzel, D., Wieland, F., et al. (2008). Ceramide triggers budding of exosome vesicles into multivesicular endosomes. Science 319, 1244–1247.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donald, I. W. (2010). Waste Immobilization in Glass and Ceramic Based Hosts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Baatrup, G. ed. (2015). Multidisciplinary Treatment of Colorectal Cancer: Staging – Treatment – Pathology – Palliation. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Obaid, S., Champagne, P.-O., Mercier, C., and Crevier, L. (2015). “Neurosurgery,” in Pediatric Neuro-oncology, eds. K. Scheinemann and E. Bouffet (New York, NY: Springer), 31–39.

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

Davis, J. (2015). Fracking Chemicals Discovered In Drinking Water. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fracking-chemicals-discovered-drinking-water/ [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 (1999). Month In Review, July 1999: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications. 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

Akers, K. (2017). The Impact of Work-Family Conflict, Gender, and Family-Friendly Policies on Organizational Attractiveness and Job Pursuit Intentions.

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

Pilon, M. (2012). Armstrong Finds a Mixed Reception in Triathlon. New York Times, B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shi, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Shi, 2001; Nacher and Akutsu, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Nacher and Akutsu, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Trajkovic et al., 2008)

About the journal

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