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

Bloodworth, A. (2014). Resources: Track flows to manage technology-metal supply. Nature 505, 19–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xia, Y., and Gong, J.-P. (2014). Impact of recombinant globular adiponectin on early warm ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat bile duct after liver transplantation. Sci. Rep. 4, 6426.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verma, T., Araújo, N. A. M., and Herrmann, H. J. (2014). Revealing the structure of the world airline network. Sci. Rep. 4, 5638.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fonseca, D. M., Keyghobadi, N., Malcolm, C. A., Mehmet, C., Schaffner, F., Mogi, M., et al. (2004). Emerging vectors in the Culex pipiens complex. Science 303, 1535–1538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mishra, A. R. (2010). Cellular Technologies for Emerging Markets. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Meghanathan, N., Nagamalai, D., and Chaki, N. eds. (2013). Advances in Computing and Information Technology: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ACITY) July 13-15, 2012, Chennai, India - Volume 2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Torney, F., Frame, B., and Wang, K. (2007). “Maize,” in Transgenic Crops IV, eds. E.-C. Pua and M. R. Davey (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 73–105.

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, D. (2016). Solved Mystery Of The Deep-Sea Mushroom Just Raises New Questions. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/solved-mystery-of-the-deepsea-mushroom-just-raises-new-questions/ (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 (1976). Report to the Secretary, HEW, on the National Direct Student Loan Delinquency Rate. 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

Kim, J. W. (2009). Perceptually motivated automatic dance motion generation for music. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Tom of Finland. New York Times, C11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bloodworth, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bloodworth, 2014; Xia and Gong, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Xia and Gong, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fonseca et al., 2004)

About the journal

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