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

Blow, N. (2009). Systems biology: Playing by the rules. Nature 460, 417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Traas, J., and Vernoux, T. (2010). Plant science. Oscillating roots. Science 329, 1290–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Humphries, M. M., Thomas, D. W., and Speakman, J. R. (2002). Climate-mediated energetic constraints on the distribution of hibernating mammals. Nature 418, 313–316.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Imaizumi, T., Tran, H. G., Swartz, T. E., Briggs, W. R., and Kay, S. A. (2003). FKF1 is essential for photoperiodic-specific light signalling in Arabidopsis. Nature 426, 302–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenning, A., Smith, A., Rochovská, A., and Świa̧tek, D. (2010). Domesticating Neo-Liberalism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gawrock, D., Reimer, H., Sadeghi, A.-R., and Vishik, C. eds. (2009). Future of Trust in Computing: Proceedings of the First International Conference Future of Trust in Computing 2008. Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernardi, A., Decker, B., Holz, H., Muthig, D., and Nomura, N. (2005). “1st Intelligent Office Appliances (IOA 2005): Knowledge Appliances in the Office of the Future,” in Professional Knowledge Management: Third Biennial Conference, WM 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 10-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, eds. K.-D. Althoff, A. Dengel, R. Bergmann, M. Nick, and T. Roth-Berghofer (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 48–49.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Banned in Europe, Safe in the U.S. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/banned-europe-safe-us/ (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 (1969). Deficiencies in the Recording and Reporting of Contractor-Held, Government-Owned Property, Goddard Space Flight Center. 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

Glock, M. (2008). Cultural futuristics: Bringing consciousness to cultural complexes and soul to scenario based planning. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr (2017). Man Who Said He Was Angry at Whites Gets 25 Years for Fatal Punch in Union Sq. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Blow, 2009; Traas and Vernoux, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Traas and Vernoux, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Imaizumi et al., 2003)

About the journal

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