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

Tobias, P. V. (2003). Paleoanthropology. Encore Olduvai. Science 299, 1193–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sessolo, M., and Bolink, H. J. (2015). Solar cells. Perovskite solar cells join the major league. Science 350, 917.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, B. O., Zhao, J., and Feng, Y. (2013). Active impedance metasurface with full 360° reflection phase tuning. Sci. Rep. 3, 3059.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li, H., Xu, H., Zhou, Y., Zhang, J., Long, C., Li, S., et al. (2007). The phosphothreonine lyase activity of a bacterial type III effector family. Science 315, 1000–1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fencott, C., Lockyer, M., Clay, J., and Massey, P. (2012). Game Invaders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lopes, L. S., Lau, N., Mariano, P., and Rocha, L. M. eds. (2009). Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-15, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, J. S., and Hochman, M. G. (2012). “Osseous Tumors,” in Bone Tumors: A Practical Guide to Imaging, ed. M. G. Hochman (New York, NY: Springer), 113–133.

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

Andrews, R. (2016). This Somersaulting Knight Proves These Warriors Were Surprisingly Agile. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-somersaulting-knight-proves-these-warriors-were-surprisingly-agile/ (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 (2000). FAA Computer Security: Actions Needed to Address Critical Weaknesses That Jeopardize Aviation Operations. 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

Yuknis, C. M. (2010). A grounded theory of deaf middle school students’ revision of their own writing. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF (2010). Man Of Steel Lands On the iPhone. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tobias, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Tobias, 2003; Sessolo and Bolink, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sessolo and Bolink, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Li 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