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

Willyard, C. (2011). Lifestyle: Breaking the cancer habit. Nature 471, S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmidt, O. G., and Eberl, K. (2001). Nanotechnology. Thin solid films roll up into nanotubes. Nature 410, 168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuffen, H., Smith, R., and Sammonds, P. R. (2008). Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma. Nature 453, 511–514.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Haimerl, M., Verloh, N., Fellner, C., Zeman, F., Teufel, A., Fichtner-Feigl, S., et al. (2014). MRI-based estimation of liver function: Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced T1 relaxometry of 3T vs. the MELD score. Sci. Rep. 4, 5621.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cowan, J. P. (2016). The Effects of Sound on People. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bucur, D. (2005). Variational Methods in Shape Optimization Problems., ed. G. Buttazzo. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Junosza-Szaniawski, K., and Rzążewski, P. (2011). “On Improved Exact Algorithms for L(2,1)-Labeling of Graphs,” in Combinatorial Algorithms: 21st International Workshop, IWOCA 2010, London, UK, July 26-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, eds. C. S. Iliopoulos and W. F. Smyth (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 34–37.

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

Andrew, D. (2017). Not A Lizard Nor A Dinosaur, Tuatara Is The Sole Survivor Of A Once-Widespread Reptile Group. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/not-a-lizard-nor-a-dinosaur-tuatara-is-the-sole-survivor-of-a-oncewidespread-reptile-group/ (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 (2005). NASA’s Space Vision: Business Case for Prometheus 1 Needed to Ensure Requirements Match Available Resources. 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

Waidelich, L. A. (2012). Identifying Leadership Potential: The Process of Principals within a Charter School Network. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Barron, J. (2017). An Ink-Stained Reunion After Years of Digital Upheaval. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willyard, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Schmidt and Eberl, 2001; Willyard, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Schmidt and Eberl, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Haimerl et al., 2014)

About the journal

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