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

Eisenberg, R. S. (2003). Science and the law. Patent swords and shields. Science 299, 1018–1019.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abouheif, E., and Wray, G. A. (2002). Evolution of the gene network underlying wing polyphenism in ants. Science 297, 249–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murakami, K. S., Masuda, S., and Darst, S. A. (2002). Structural basis of transcription initiation: RNA polymerase holoenzyme at 4 A resolution. Science 296, 1280–1284.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Müller-Navarra, D. C., Brett, M. T., Park, S., Chandra, S., Ballantyne, A. P., Zorita, E., et al. (2004). Unsaturated fatty acid content in seston and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes. Nature 427, 69–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry, W. C. (2009). Introduction to Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gupta, N. S. ed. (2011). Chitin: Formation and Diagenesis. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Giverso, C., and Preziosi, L. (2014). “Using Mathematical Modelling as a Virtual Microscope to Support Biomedical Research,” in Mathematical Models and Methods for Planet Earth, eds. A. Celletti, U. Locatelli, T. Ruggeri, and E. Strickland (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 59–71.

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

Hale, T. (2017). What Would Happen If A Nuclear Bomb Was Dropped On A City? 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 (1972). Employment Security Operations--The Impact of a Computerized Job Bank in Baltimore, Maryland. 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

White, J. (2014). Support group for family caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients: A grant proposal. 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

Poniewozik, J. (2016). Streaming at the Top of Her Lungs. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenberg, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abouheif and Wray, 2002; Eisenberg, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Abouheif and Wray, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Müller-Navarra 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