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

Travers, A. (2014). Structural biology. The 30-nm fiber redux. Science 344, 370–372.

A journal article with 2 authors

Messing, G. L., and Stevenson, A. J. (2008). Materials science. Toward pore-free ceramics. Science 322, 383–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caraveo-Frescas, J. A., Khan, M. A., and Alshareef, H. N. (2014). Polymer ferroelectric field-effect memory device with SnO channel layer exhibits record hole mobility. Sci. Rep. 4, 5243.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Monfils, M.-H., Cowansage, K. K., Klann, E., and LeDoux, J. E. (2009). Extinction-reconsolidation boundaries: key to persistent attenuation of fear memories. Science 324, 951–955.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morri, G., and Mazza, A. (2014). Property Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Arena, P., and Patanè, L. eds. (2014). Spatial Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots II: An Insect Brain Computational Model. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Nuñez, L. (2005). “Tools for Forecasting or Warning as well as Hazard Assessment to Reduce Impact of Natural Disasters on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,” in Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture: Impacts and Mitigation, eds. M. V. K. Sivakumar, R. P. Motha, and H. P. Das (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 71–92.

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

Taub, B. (2015). Spectacular Rainbow Cloud Spotted In Jamaican Sky. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/spectacular-rainbow-cloud-spotted-jamaican-sky/ (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 (2012). Crop Insurance: Savings Would Result from Program Changes and Greater Use of Data Mining. 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

Manalo, J. B. (2017). Ascend Physical Therapy: A Private Practice Clinic for the Next Level. 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

Nir, S. M., and Rosenberg, E. (2016). Recreation and Commerce Collide on City’s Crowded Waterways. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Travers, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Messing and Stevenson, 2008; Travers, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Messing and Stevenson, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Monfils et al., 2009)

About the journal

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