How to format your references using the Frontiers in Oxidant Physiology citation style

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

Vohs, K. D. (2013). Psychology. The poor’s poor mental power. Science 341, 969–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vidale, J. E., and Earle, P. S. (2000). Fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth’s inner core. Nature 404, 273–275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garcia, P., Armstrong, R., and Zaman, M. H. (2014). Models of education in medicine, public health, and engineering. Science 345, 1281–1283.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Furumoto, T., Yamaguchi, T., Ohshima-Ichie, Y., Nakamura, M., Tsuchida-Iwata, Y., Shimamura, M., et al. (2011). A plastidial sodium-dependent pyruvate transporter. Nature 476, 472–475.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh, S. A., and Rahman, M. A. (2010). An Introduction to Wavelet Modulated Inverters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wane, N. N., Manyimo, E. L., and Ritskes, E. J. eds. (2011). Spirituality, Education & Society. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Kern, T. A., and Meckel, O. (2009). “Internal Structure of Haptic Systems,” in Engineering Haptic Devices: A Beginner’s Guide for Engineers, ed. T. A. Kern (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 95–110.

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 Oxidant Physiology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Astronomers Catch Surprise “Eclipse” Of Jupiter’s Moons. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-jupiters-moons-just-crossed-over-another-one/ [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 (1993). Social Security: Telephone Busy Signal Rates at Local SSA Field Offices. 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

Eisenberg, D. A. (2012). Effectiveness of an eel curriculum on student achievement for the California earth science standard on ocean currents A comparative analysis.

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

Kelly, K. (2007). Keep ’Em Coming. New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vohs, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Vidale and Earle, 2000; Vohs, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Vidale and Earle, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Furumoto et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Oxidant Physiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)