How to format your references using the Frontiers in Molecular and Structural Endocrinology citation style

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

Lenski, R. E. (2000). No mercy. Science 290, 936a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melnik, D. G., and Miller, T. A. (2008). Chemistry. The changing shapes of molecules. Science 320, 881–882.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pavlov, P., Svendsen, J. I., and Indrelid, S. (2001). Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago. Nature 413, 64–67.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Verheyen, E., Salzburger, W., Snoeks, J., and Meyer, A. (2003). Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa. Science 300, 325–329.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pande, A., and Wolshon, B. (2015). Traffic Engineering Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Belafsky, P. C. (2014). The Clinician’s Guide to Swallowing Fluoroscopy., ed. M. A. Kuhn. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bennett, L. (2016). “Drug Delivery to Specific Compartments of the Eye,” in Ocular Drug Delivery: Advances, Challenges and Applications, ed. R. T. Addo (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 37–52.

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 Structural Endocrinology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). Comet Impacts May Have Produced The Building Blocks For Life On Earth. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/comet-impacts-may-have-produced-building-blocks-life-earth/ (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 (2009). Information Technology: Social Security Administration’s Data Exchanges Support Current Programs, but Better Planning Is Needed to Meet Future Demands. 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

Hussmann, S. (2014). Profiling Drilling Fluid Invasion in Sandstones Using Water Based Muds: Implications for Bridging and Wellbore Strengthening Effects. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Pilon, M. (2014). For Coed Grand Slam Event, Reaction Seems to Be Mixed, Too. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lenski, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lenski, 2000; Melnik and Miller, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Melnik and Miller, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Verheyen et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Molecular and Structural Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
Scope