How to format your references using the Frontiers in Nutrition citation style

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

Weinert T. Cell biology. What a cell should know (but may not). Science (2007) 315:1374–1375.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moir S, Fauci AS. Immunology. Salmonella susceptibility. Science (2010) 328:439–440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petersen J, Volz J, Rauschenbeutel A. Nanophotonics. Chiral nanophotonic waveguide interface based on spin-orbit interaction of light. Science (2014) 346:67–71.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Luik RM, Wang B, Prakriya M, Wu MM, Lewis RS. Oligomerization of STIM1 couples ER calcium depletion to CRAC channel activation. Nature (2008) 454:538–542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yaacoub EE, Dawy Z. Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDMA Wireless Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2012).

An edited book

Gerdt VP, Koepf W, Seiler WM, Vorozhtsov EV eds. Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing: 18th International Workshop, CASC 2016, Bucharest, Romania, September 19-23, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2016). XIII, 513 p. 61 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Yilbas BS, Al-Dweik AY, Al-Aqeeli N, Al-Qahtani HM. “Concluding Remarks.,” In: Al-Dweik AY, Al-Aqeeli N, Al-Qahtani HM, editors. Laser Pulse Heating of Surfaces and Thermal Stress Analysis. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing (2014). p. 167–175

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 Nutrition.

Blog post

Fang J. Rings Discovered Around an Asteroid for the First Time. IFLScience (2014) https://www.iflscience.com/space/rings-discovered-around-asteroid-first-time/ [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. FAA Computer Systems: Limited Progress on Year 2000 Issue Increases Risk Dramatically. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (1998).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Adrian DE. School scheduling models and the achievement of at-risk students: A causal-comparative study. [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix (2009).

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

St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times (1994)148.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Nutrition
Abbreviation	Front. Nutr.
ISSN (online)	2296-861X
Scope