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

Wellems, T. E. (2002). Plasmodium chloroquine resistance and the search for a replacement antimalarial drug. Science 298, 124–126.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiang, Y. C., and Gao, J. (2014). Strain-induced photoconductivity in thin films of Co doped amorphous carbon. Sci. Rep. 4, 6738.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilkinson, J. J., Simmons, S. F., and Stoffell, B. (2013). How metalliferous brines line Mexican epithermal veins with silver. Sci. Rep. 3, 2057.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Corma, A., Díaz-Cabañas, M. J., Jordá, J. L., Martínez, C., and Moliner, M. (2006). High-throughput synthesis and catalytic properties of a molecular sieve with 18- and 10-member rings. Nature 443, 842–845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Whitcomb, C. A., and Whitcomb, L. E. (2013). Effective Interpersonal and Team Communication Skills for Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Decker, T., and Müller, M. eds. (2012). Jak-Stat Signaling : From Basics to Disease. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Minier, M., and Thomas, G. (2013). “An Integral Distinguisher on Grøstl-512 v3,” in Progress in Cryptology – INDOCRYPT 2013: 14th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Mumbai, India, December 7-10, 2013. Proceedings, eds. G. Paul and S. Vaudenay (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 50–59.

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

Davis, J. (2015). First Trial of Pest-Resistant GM Wheat a Failure, Report Scientists. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-trial-pest-resistant-gm-wheat-failure-report-scientists/ (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 (1987). School Dropouts: Survey of Local Programs. 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

Khayyat, A. M. (2015). Use of near field communication technology to prevent consumption and usage of expired products. 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

Kelly, K. (2004). New Concern That Politeness Is a Lost Art in the Office. New York Times, 101.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wellems, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Wellems, 2002; Jiang and Gao, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jiang and Gao, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Corma et al., 2006)

About the journal

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