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

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

Kleiner, K. (2008). Toronto rising. Nature 453, 252–253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ehrenfreund, P., and Foing, B. (2015). Astrochemistry: Fullerene solves an interstellar puzzle. Nature 523, 296–297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gunanathan, C., Ben-David, Y., and Milstein, D. (2007). Direct synthesis of amides from alcohols and amines with liberation of H2. Science 317, 790–792.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang, L., Yu, X., Zheng, L., Zhang, Y., Li, Y., Fang, Q., et al. (2018). Lineage tracking reveals dynamic relationships of T cells in colorectal cancer. Nature.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moe, T. M., and Chubb, J. E. (2009). Liberating Learning. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Ranci, C., and Pavolini, E. eds. (2013). Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe: Investigating Institutional Change and Social Impacts. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, F., and Lu, T. (2011). “Analysis of Skin Bioheat Transfer,” in Introduction to Skin Biothermomechanics and Thermal Pain, ed. T. Lu (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 69–83.

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 Oncology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016). This Cute Falcon Chick Was Rescued At CERN. IFLScience.

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 (2016). Emergency Communications: Survey of Selected Federal Agencies’ Use and Procurement of Land Mobile Radio Equipment (GAO-17-13SP, October 5, 2016), an E-supplement to GAO-17-12. 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

Dinh, H. (2013). A study of cell-based genetic algorithms with applications to neural networks. 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. (2011). Tallying the Financial Aftermath: Japan Government Likely To Bear Big Monetary Loss. 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 (Kleiner, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kleiner, 2008; Ehrenfreund and Foing, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ehrenfreund and Foing, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Pediatric Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology