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

McGill, B. J. (2003). A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature 422, 881–885.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suit, H. D., and Withers, H. R. (2001). Endothelial cells and radiation gastrointestinal syndrome. Science 294, 1411.

A journal article with 3 authors

Agrawal, A., Chhatre, A., and Hardin, R. (2008). Changing governance of the world’s forests. Science 320, 1460–1462.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mercado, L. M., Bellouin, N., Sitch, S., Boucher, O., Huntingford, C., Wild, M., et al. (2009). Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink. Nature 458, 1014–1017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walter, R. J. (1998). Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

de Graaf, C. (2016). Magnetic Interactions in Molecules and Solids., 1st ed. 2016, ed. R. Broer. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Uthayakumar, R. (2013). “Fractal Dimension in Epileptic EEG Signal Analysis,” in Applications of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Science and Engineering - Vol. 3, eds. S. Banerjee and L. Rondoni (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 103–157.

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

Luntz, S. (2014). Unfeelability Cloak Prevents Sensing Object By Touch. IFLScience.

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 (1993). Student Loans: Default Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 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

Wells, R. E. (2008). Managers’ affective expressions as determinants of employee responses to change: Valence, inappropriateness and authenticity. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Vecsey, G. (2011). Letter of the Law 1, Proportion 0. New York Times, SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGill, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Suit and Withers, 2001; McGill, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Suit and Withers, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Mercado et al., 2009)

About the journal

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