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

Bray D. Molecular networks: the top-down view. Science (2003) 301:1864–1865.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rajsbaum R, García-Sastre A. Virology. Unanchored ubiquitin in virus uncoating. Science (2014) 346:427–428.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rust MJ, Golden SS, O’Shea EK. Light-driven changes in energy metabolism directly entrain the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator. Science (2011) 331:220–223.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kim YS, Kato HE, Yamashita K, Ito S, Inoue K, Ramakrishnan C, Fenno LE, Evans KE, Paggi JM, Dror RO, et al. Crystal structure of the natural anion-conducting channelrhodopsin GtACR1. Nature (2018) 561:343–348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu SF. Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2005).

An edited book

Kugler T, Smith JC, Connolly T, Son Y-J eds. Decision Modeling and Behavior in Complex and Uncertain Environments. New York, NY: Springer (2008). XII, 364 p. 55 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Nava S, Fanfulla F. “Quando iniziare (o meno) il trattamento ventilatorio.,” In: Fanfulla F, editor. Ventilazione meccanica non invasiva: Come, quando e perché. Milano: Springer (2010). p. 21–27

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 E. Researchers Develop Highly Effective Vaccine To Diarrhea Causing Bacterium. IFLScience (2014) https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-develop-highly-effective-vaccine-diarrhea-causing-bacterium/ [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. Staffing Implications of Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System and Remote Sensing Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (1980).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duggimpudi MB. Object Ranking Algorithms for Improved Decision Making. [Doctoral dissertation]. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana (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. Concord Bicycle Music Buying Imagem Music. New York Times (2017)B6.

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

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