How to format your references using the Frontiers in Molecular and Cellular Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Molecular and Cellular Oncology. 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

Wirth, B. D. (2007). Materials science. How does radiation damage materials? Science 318, 923–924.

A journal article with 2 authors

Imura, T., and Tomonaga, M. (2013). A ground-like surface facilitates visual search in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Sci. Rep. 3, 2343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kwak, S.-H., Shen, R., and Schiefelbein, J. (2005). Positional signaling mediated by a receptor-like kinase in Arabidopsis. Science 307, 1111–1113.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Qi, H., Cannons, J. L., Klauschen, F., Schwartzberg, P. L., and Germain, R. N. (2008). SAP-controlled T-B cell interactions underlie germinal centre formation. Nature 455, 764–769.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dorronsoro, B., Ruiz, P., Danoy, G., Pigné, Y., and Bouvry, P. (2014). Evolutionary Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leal Filho, W., and Sümer, V. eds. (2015). Sustainable Water Use and Management: Examples of New Approaches and Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chibbaro, S., Rondoni, L., and Vulpiani, A. (2014). “Determinism, Chaos and Reductionism,” in Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality: The Importance of Being Borderline, eds. L. Rondoni and A. Vulpiani (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 99–120.

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 Molecular and Cellular Oncology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017). Octopuses Are Even More Amazing Than We Thought. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/octopuses-are-even-more-amazing-than-we-thought/ (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). New Navajo Construction Activities on the Navajo and Hopi Joint-Use Area. 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

Huffman, K. D. (2009). Teacher and administrator perceptions of a balanced school calendar and its effects on students in poverty. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Rao, P. S., and Isaac, M. (2017). Uber, Lamenting Cost of ‘Bad Reputation,’ Loses London License. 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 (Wirth, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Wirth, 2007; Imura and Tomonaga, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Imura and Tomonaga, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Qi et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology