How to format your references using the Frontiers in Integrative Physiology citation style

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

Bakalar, N. (2012). Sensory science: partners in flavour. Nature 486, S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boesz, C., and Lloyd, N. (2008). Collaborations: investigating international misconduct. Nature 452, 686–687.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keith, D. W., Parson, E., and Morgan, M. G. (2010). Research on global sun block needed now. Nature 463, 426–427.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kyle, B. D., Ahrendt, E., Braun, A. P., and Braun, J. E. A. (2013). The large conductance, calcium-activated K+ (BK) channel is regulated by cysteine string protein. Sci. Rep. 3, 2447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Helsel, D. R. (2011). Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brokate, M. (2015). Measure and Integral., ed. G. Kersting. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Solano-Aragón, C., and Castillo, O. (2015). “Optimization of Benchmark Mathematical Functions Using the Firefly Algorithm with Dynamic Parameters,” in Fuzzy Logic Augmentation of Nature-Inspired Optimization Metaheuristics: Theory and Applications, eds. O. Castillo and P. Melin (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 81–89.

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 Integrative Physiology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015). Hydrothermal Activity Discovered On Enceladus. IFLScience.

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 (2015). Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Steps to Improve Vetting of Airport Workers. 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

Martinez Abadia, J. M. (2014). French for Spanish speakers: A contrastive study of English monolingual, bilingual, and plurilingual adult learners of French. 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

Greenhouse, L. (2005). Justices Reject Appeal in Tobacco Case. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bakalar, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Boesz and Lloyd, 2008; Bakalar, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Boesz and Lloyd, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kyle et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Integrative Physiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)