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

Gadagkar R. Evolution. Altruistic wasps? Science (2011) 333:833–834.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haldane AG, May RM. Systemic risk in banking ecosystems. Nature (2011) 469:351–355.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wara MW, Ravelo AC, Delaney ML. Permanent El Niño-like conditions during the Pliocene warm period. Science (2005) 309:758–761.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Samatey FA, Imada K, Nagashima S, Vonderviszt F, Kumasaka T, Yamamoto M, Namba K. Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling. Nature (2001) 410:331–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simonović SP. Systems Approach to Management of Disasters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2010).

An edited book

Li Z, Vulkov L, Waśniewski J eds. Numerical Analysis and Its Applications: Third International Conference, NAA 2004, Rousse, Bulgaria, June 29-July 3, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. (2005). XIII, 630 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Shaw CP. “‘Christ as Primary Sacrament,.’” In: Chapman MD, Haar M, editors. Pathways for Ecclesial Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century: Revisiting Ecumenical Method. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US (2016). p. 29–42

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

Andrew D. Moving Toward Computing At The Speed Of Thought. IFLScience (2016) https://www.iflscience.com/technology/moving-toward-computing-at-the-speed-of-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. Institutional Aid Under Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (1985).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Turpin-Padberg S. Effects of Elementary Teacher Preparation and Support on Retention. [Doctoral dissertation]. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University. (2017).

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

Sisario B. Johnny Cash Has Now Become the Poet in Black. New York Times (2016)C1.

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