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

Branch, D. (2003). Astrophysics. When a white dwarf explodes. Science 299, 53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, H., and Owen, M. R. (2013). Damped propagation of cell polarization explains distinct PCP phenotypes of epithelial patterning. Sci. Rep. 3, 2528.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zavatta, A., Viciani, S., and Bellini, M. (2004). Quantum-to-classical transition with single-photon-added coherent states of light. Science 306, 660–662.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang, H., Yin, Y., Wang, G., Liu, Z., Liu, L., and Sun, F. (2014). Interleukin-6 disrupts blood-testis barrier through inhibiting protein degradation or activating phosphorylated ERK in Sertoli cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 4260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grose, M. (2016). Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Art, L. (2007). Dynamic Programming: A Computational Tool. , ed. H. Mauch Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nenon, T. (2011). “The Limits of Biomedical Ethics and the Specific Role of Phenomenology in Biomedical Ethics,” in Clinical Ethics and the Necessity of Stories: Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner Philosophy and Medicine., eds. O. P. Wiggins and A. C. Allen (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 45–55.

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

Carpineti, C. (2017). This Incredible Video Lets You See What It Looks Like INSIDE A Tornado. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-incredible-video-lets-you-see-what-it-looks-like-inside-a-tornado/ [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 (2004). Information Technology: Homeland Security Should Better Balance Need for System Integration Strategy with Spending for New and Enhanced Systems. 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

Davenport, L. C. (2008). Behavior and ecology of the Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) in oxbow lakes of the Manú Biosphere Reserve, Perú.

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. (2015). Puerto Rico’s Debt Rescue Plan Is Being Called Into Question. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Branch, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Branch, 2003; Zhu and Owen, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Owen, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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