How to format your references using the Frontiers in Integrative and Regenerative Pharmacology citation style

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

Lewin, G. R. (2013). Evolution. Natural selection and pain meet at a sodium channel. Science 342, 428–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenfeld, D., and Woodley, W. L. (2000). Deep convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to -37.5 degrees C. Nature 405, 440–442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, Y., Nakano, M., and Ikeda, T. (2003). Photomechanics: directed bending of a polymer film by light. Nature 425, 145.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fries, P., Reynolds, J. H., Rorie, A. E., and Desimone, R. (2001). Modulation of oscillatory neuronal synchronization by selective visual attention. Science 291, 1560–1563.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maji, P., and Pal, S. K. (2012). Rough-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tiampo, K. F., Weatherley, D. K., and Weinstein, S. A. eds. (2008). Earthquakes: Simulations, Sources and Tsunamis. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Tan, Z., Li, X., and Mao, W. (2011). “Agent-Based Modeling of Netizen Groups in Chinese Internet Events,” in Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2011, Beijing, China, July 9, 2011. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. M. Chau, G. A. Wang, X. Zheng, H. Chen, D. Zeng, and W. Mao (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 43–53.

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 Integrative and Regenerative Pharmacology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017). Curiosity Takes A Deeper Look At The Sand Dunes Of Mars. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/curiosity-takes-a-deeper-look-at-the-sand-dunes-of-mars/ [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 (1973). Need for Improved Controls for Identifying and Correcting Safety Defects on Light Aircraft. 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

Duerr, P. S. (2015). Investigation of marine waterjet inlets during turning maneuvers.

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

Williams, J. (2017). Podcast Therapy. New York Times, BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewin, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Rosenfeld and Woodley, 2000; Lewin, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rosenfeld and Woodley, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Fries et al., 2001)

About the journal

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