How to format your references using the Frontiers in Inflammation Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Inflammation 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

Brenner, S. E. (2007). Common sense for our genomes. Nature 449, 783–784.

A journal article with 2 authors

Muijres, F. T., and Dickinson, M. H. (2014). Bird flight: Fly with a little flap from your friends. Nature 505, 295–296.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, X., Mariani, F. V., and Martin, G. R. (2002). Functions of FGF signalling from the apical ectodermal ridge in limb development. Nature 418, 501–508.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Himeno, M., Kitazawa, Y., Yoshida, T., Maejima, K., Yamaji, Y., Oshima, K., et al. (2014). Purple top symptoms are associated with reduction of leaf cell death in phytoplasma-infected plants. Sci. Rep. 4, 4111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prazeres, D. M. F. (2011). Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Korres, G. M. ed. (2007). Regionalisation, Growth, and Economic Integration. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD.

A chapter in an edited book

Piccardi, C., and Casagrandi, R. (2009). “Remarks on Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks,” in Modelling, Estimation and Control of Networked Complex Systems, eds. A. Chiuso, L. Fortuna, M. Frasca, A. Rizzo, L. Schenato, and S. Zampieri (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 77–89.

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 Inflammation Pharmacology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017). Palm Oil Might Not Kill You, But It Is Killing The Environment. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/palm-oil-might-not-kill-you-but-it-is-killing-the-environment/ (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). Federal Aviation Administration: Viability of Current Funding Structure for Aviation Activities and Observations on Funding Provisions of Reauthorization Proposals. 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

Hirschy, M. A. (2015). Differences in usage of federally funded insurance options by women. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Ortved, J. (2017). Browsing for Denim. Or a Toothbrush. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brenner, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brenner, 2007; Muijres and Dickinson, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Muijres and Dickinson, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Himeno et al., 2014)

About the journal

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