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

Hennecke, U. (2013). Chemistry. Revealing the positive side of fluorine. Science 340, 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benilova, I., and De Strooper, B. (2013). Neuroscience. Promiscuous Alzheimer’s amyloid: yet another partner. Science 341, 1354–1355.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schorlemmer, D., Wiemer, S., and Wyss, M. (2005). Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes. Nature 437, 539–542.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dong, X.-P., Cheng, X., Mills, E., Delling, M., Wang, F., Kurz, T., et al. (2008). The type IV mucolipidosis-associated protein TRPML1 is an endolysosomal iron release channel. Nature 455, 992–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Forshaw, M. (2006). Understanding Headaches and Migraines. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hudak, P., and Warren, D. S. eds. (2008). Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages: 10th International Symposium, PADL 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 7-8, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vrettaros, J., Leros, A., Hrissagis-Chrysagis, K., and Drigas, A. (2010). “The Problem of Knowledge Elicitation from the Expert’s Point of View,” in Computer-Based Diagnostics and Systematic Analysis of Knowledge, eds. D. Ifenthaler, P. Pirnay-Dummer, and N. M. Seel (Boston, MA: Springer US), 61–73.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Can Science Finger A Philanderer? Not Like This! IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-science-finger-philanderer-not/ (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 (1989). Aviation Safety: Chicago Center Work Force Views of the Air Traffic Control System. 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

Shrank, S. M. (2017). ShareOne: An iOS resource application for caseworkers: 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

Kelly, C. (2008). A Remodeling Gift to Remind Tarrytown of a Church’s History. New York Times, 14WE11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hennecke, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Benilova and De Strooper, 2013; Hennecke, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Benilova and De Strooper, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al., 2008)

About the journal

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