How to format your references using the Frontiers in Head and Neck Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Head and Neck Cancer. 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

Zaanen, J. (2009). Journal club. A theoretical physicist journeys to a hairy black hole’s horizon. Nature 462, 15.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sabado, R. L., and Bhardwaj, N. (2015). Cancer immunotherapy: dendritic-cell vaccines on the move. Nature 519, 300–301.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, S., Bluemle, M. J., and Bates, F. S. (2010). Discovery of a Frank-Kasper sigma phase in sphere-forming block copolymer melts. Science 330, 349–353.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sawa, M., Nusinow, D. A., Kay, S. A., and Imaizumi, T. (2007). FKF1 and GIGANTEA complex formation is required for day-length measurement in Arabidopsis. Science 318, 261–265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adam, C. (2016). Forensic Evidence in Court. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Aleven, V., Kay, J., and Mostow, J. eds. (2010). Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 14-18, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, L., and Zhang, B. (2007). “Quotient Space Based Multi-granular Analysis,” in Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: Second International Conference, KSEM 2007, Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30, 2007. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. Z. Zhang and J. Siekmann (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 17–17.

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 Head and Neck Cancer.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). The Horrifying Way That Scientists Want To Treat Celiac Disease. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/parasitic-worms-trialed-treatment-celiac-disease/ [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 (2007). Aviation Security: TSA’s Staffing Allocation Model Is Useful for Allocating Staff among Airports, but Its Assumptions Should Be Systematically Reassessed. 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

Du, L. (2012). Economic model for vehicle ownership quota policy analysis.

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

Brantley, B. (2016). Regrets? She Has a Big One. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zaanen, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Zaanen, 2009; Sabado and Bhardwaj, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sabado and Bhardwaj, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Sawa et al., 2007)

About the journal

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