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

Trono, D. (2003). Virology. Picking the right spot. Science 300, 1670–1671.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kroymann, J., and Mitchell-Olds, T. (2005). Epistasis and balanced polymorphism influencing complex trait variation. Nature 435, 95–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

Basile-Doelsch, I., Meunier, J. D., and Parron, C. (2005). Another continental pool in the terrestrial silicon cycle. Nature 433, 399–402.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Linn, M. C., Lee, H.-S., Tinker, R., Husic, F., and Chiu, J. L. (2006). Inquiry learning. Teaching and assessing knowledge integration in science. Science 313, 1049–1050.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yanni, S. B. (2015). Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, H., Zou, L., Huang, G., He, J., Pang, C., Zhang, H. L., et al. eds. (2012). Web Technologies and Applications: APWeb 2012 International Workshops: SenDe, IDP, IEKB, MBC, Kunming, China, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Parent, C. I., Zhang, T.-Y., and Meaney, M. J. (2012). “Epigenetics and the Environmental Regulation of Genomic Structure and Function: Implications for Health,” in Epigenetics, Brain and Behavior, eds. P. Sassone Corsi and Y. Christen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 31–53.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). World’s First Malaria Vaccine Gets Green Light. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-gets-green-light/ (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 (1970). Use of Consultants by NASA. 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

Cappiello, D. M. (2010). Minding the gap: Western export controls and soviet technology policy during the 1960s. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Koblin, J. (2017). TV’s Answer to Dark Days. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trono, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Trono, 2003; Kroymann and Mitchell-Olds, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Kroymann and Mitchell-Olds, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Linn et al., 2006)

About the journal

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