How to format your references using the Frontiers in Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs. 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

Lundstrom, M. (2003). Applied physics. Moore’s law forever? Science 299, 210–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brainard, M. S., and Doupe, A. J. (2002). What songbirds teach us about learning. Nature 417, 351–358.

A journal article with 3 authors

Russell, D. G., Barry, C. E., 3rd, and Flynn, J. L. (2010). Tuberculosis: what we don’t know can, and does, hurt us. Science 328, 852–856.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Paytan, A., Kastner, M., Campbell, D., and Thiemens, M. H. (2004). Seawater sulfur isotope fluctuations in the Cretaceous. Science 304, 1663–1665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sailor, W. (2009). Making RTI Work. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Albers, S., Marchetti-Spaccamela, A., Matias, Y., Nikoletseas, S., and Thomas, W. eds. (2009). Automata, Languages and Programming: 36th International Colloquium, ICALP 2009, Rhodes, Greece, July 5-12, 2009, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gore, R. M., and Silvers, R. (2014). “Infectious, Inflammatory, and Ischemic Diseases of the Colon and Rectum,” in Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2014–2017: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques, eds. J. Hodler, G. K. von Schulthess, R. A. Kubik-Huch, and C. L. Zollikofer (Milano: Springer), 38–46.

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 Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017). Brazilian Vampire Bats Are Now Feasting On Human Blood. 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 (1990). Special Education: Estimates of Handicapped Indian Preschoolers and Sufficiency of Services. 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

Coggin, L. L. (2014). Creating discourses of possibility: Storying between the real and the imagined to negotiate rural lives in two elementary classrooms.

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

Kanter, J. (2017). As E.U.’s Roster Swells, So Does Linguistic Burden. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lundstrom, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brainard and Doupe, 2002; Lundstrom, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Brainard and Doupe, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Paytan et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology