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

Ryan, A. J. (2009). Journal club. A chemist welcomes an ingenious advance in plastics technology. Nature 458, 553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wallenfang, M. R., and Matunis, E. (2003). Developmental biology. Orienting stem cells. Science 301, 1490–1491.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nygård, J., Cobden, D. H., and Lindelof, P. E. (2000). Kondo physics in carbon nanotubes. Nature 408, 342–346.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee, M. S., Kwon, Y. T., Li, M., Peng, J., Friedlander, R. M., and Tsai, L. H. (2000). Neurotoxicity induces cleavage of p35 to p25 by calpain. Nature 405, 360–364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, R. A. (2010). Virgil. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Hocking, A. D., Pitt, J. I., Samson, R. A., and Thrane, U. eds. (2006). Advances in Food Mycology. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ho, Q.-D., Gao, Y., Rajalingham, G., and Le-Ngoc, T. (2014). “Wireless Routing Protocols for NANs,” in Wireless Communications Networks for the Smart Grid, eds. Y. Gao, G. Rajalingham, and T. Le-Ngoc (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 51–69.

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

Andrews, R. (2016). “Mean Girl” Meerkats Reign Over Their Mobs Like Crazed Dictators. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mean-girl-meerkats-reign-over-mobs-crazed-dictators/ (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 (1988). Space Shuttle: Readiness of the Transoceanic Abort Landing Sites. 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

Goldstein, D. L. (2010). Integration of geospatial technologies into K–12 curriculum: An investigation of teacher and student perceptions and student academic achievement. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Urbina, I. (2015). Forced Labor for Cheap Fish. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ryan, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Wallenfang and Matunis, 2003; Ryan, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wallenfang and Matunis, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2000)

About the journal

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