How to format your references using the Frontiers in Pediatric Endocrinology citation style

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

Macilwain, C. (2006). Ticking the right boxes. Nature 439, 533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hirose, T., and Horvitz, H. R. (2013). An Sp1 transcription factor coordinates caspase-dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways. Nature 500, 354–358.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhuang, J., Yu, G.-R., and Nakayama, K. (2014). A series RCL circuit theory for analyzing non-steady-state water uptake of maize plants. Sci. Rep. 4, 6720.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Smith, C. D., Shu, S., Mungall, C. J., and Karpen, G. H. (2007). The Release 5.1 annotation of Drosophila melanogaster heterochromatin. Science 316, 1586–1591.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rebonato, R. (2004). Volatility and Correlation. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Kozai, T., Fujiwara, K., and Runkle, E. S. eds. (2016). LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chuiko, O. O., Gorbyk, P. P., Pogorelyi, V. K., Pentyuk, A. A., Gerashchenko, I. I., Il’chenko, A. V., et al. (2010). “Application Efficiency of Complex Preparations Based on Nanodisperse Silica in Medical Practice,” in Nanomaterials and Supramolecular Structures: Physics, Chemistry, and Applications, eds. A. P. Shpak and P. P. Gorbyk (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 53–62.

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 Pediatric Endocrinology.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2016). Here’s How People Judge You Based On Your Face. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/heres-how-people-judge-you-based-on-your-face/ (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 (1992). Financial Management: NASA’s Financial Reports Are Based on Unreliable Data. 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

Bustos, I. (2017). Backpacking Through My Suburban Barrio: Eco-Latina Diaries. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2016). Puerto Rico Aims to Appease Congress With a New Proposal on Its Debt. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2006; Hirose and Horvitz, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hirose and Horvitz, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Pediatric Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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