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

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

Brody H. Cancer. Nature (2014) 509:S49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tham W-H, Kennedy AT. Malaria: a master lock for deadly parasites. Nature (2015) 522:158–159.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Connor S, Ono R, Clarkson C. Pelagic fishing at 42,000 years before the present and the maritime skills of modern humans. Science (2011) 334:1117–1121.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Klamp T, Camps M, Nieto B, Guasch F, Ranasinghe RT, Wiedemann J, Petrášek Z, Schwille P, Klenerman D, Sauer M. Highly rapid amplification-free and quantitative DNA imaging assay. Sci Rep (2013) 3:1852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wesche R. Physical Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2015).

An edited book

Braude SY, Salomonovich AE, Samanian VA, Shklovskii IS, Sorochenko RL, Troitskii VS, Kellermann KI, Dubinskii BA, Kaidanovskii NL, Kardashev NS, et al. eds. A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR: A Collection of Scientific Essays. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. (2012). XXII, 254 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Cleophas TJ, Zwinderman AH. “Linear Regression (20 Patients).,” In: Zwinderman AH, editor. SPSS for Starters: SPSS for Starters. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands (2010). p. 15–19

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 Oncology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. A Teenager May Help NASA Decide Where To Land Its Next Mars Rover. IFLScience (2016) https://www.iflscience.com/space/teenager-may-help-nasa-decide-where-to-land-its-next-mars-rover/ [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. Title I Funding: Poor Children Benefit Though Funding Per Poor Child Differs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (2002).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim EH. A personal narrative of a Korean immigrant to the United States: A quest for finding a niche. [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach. (2010).

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

Milhollin G, Motz K. The World; The Means to Make the Poisons Came From the West. New York Times (2003)45.

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 Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology