How to format your references using the Frontiers in Mitochondrial Research citation style

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

Connor, C. E. (2002). Neuroscience. Reconstructing a 3D world. Science 298, 376–377.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nogués-Bravo, D., and Rahbek, C. (2011). Ecology. Communities under climate change. Science 334, 1070–1071.

A journal article with 3 authors

González, M. C., Hidalgo, C. A., and Barabási, A.-L. (2008). Understanding individual human mobility patterns. Nature 453, 779–782.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hattendorf, D. A., Andreeva, A., Gangar, A., Brennwald, P. J., and Weis, W. I. (2007). Structure of the yeast polarity protein Sro7 reveals a SNARE regulatory mechanism. Nature 446, 567–571.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The American Ceramic Society (2009). Progress in Nanotechnology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sobolev, B. (2008). Analysis of Waiting-Time Data in Health Services Research., ed. L. Kuramoto. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tlapa-Mendoza, D., Limón-Romero, J., Báez-López, Y., and Salinas-Coronado, J. (2014). “Process Improvement: The Six Sigma Approach,” in Lean Manufacturing in the Developing World: Methodology, Case Studies and Trends from Latin America, eds. J. L. García-Alcaraz, A. A. Maldonado-Macías, and G. Cortes-Robles (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 87–115.

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 Mitochondrial Research.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015). EPA Accidentally Contaminates River With Millions Of Gallons Of Toxic Waste. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/epa-accidentally-contaminate-animas-river-millions-gallons-toxic-waste/ (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 (1974). Federal Organization for Science and Technology. 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

Hernandez, K. (2015). Life skills education for at-risk youth at Soledad Enrichment Action Charter High School: A grant proposal. 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

Vecsey, G. (2011). Gasps From the Grandstand After the Invoice Arrives. New York Times, SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Connor, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Connor, 2002; Nogués-Bravo and Rahbek, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nogués-Bravo and Rahbek, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Hattendorf et al., 2007)

About the journal

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