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

Abbott, A. (2001). Concern raised for missing biologist. Nature 414, 475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dai, X., and Huang, N. (2014). Numerical simulation of drifting snow sublimation in the saltation layer. Sci. Rep. 4, 6611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stevens, R. C., Yokoyama, S., and Wilson, I. A. (2001). Global efforts in structural genomics. Science 294, 89–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Luchtmann, M., Beuing, O., Skalej, M., Kohl, J., Serowy, S., Bernarding, J., et al. (2014). Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in brain death. Sci. Rep. 4, 3659.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mathian, H., and Sanders, L. (2014). Spatio-Temporal Approaches. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Atasu, A. ed. (2016). Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lepisto, E. (2015). “Azerbaijan,” in The Education Systems of Europe, eds. W. Hörner, H. Döbert, L. R. Reuter, and B. von Kopp (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 61–76.

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

Andrews, R. (2016). Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact Made 20-Kilometer-High Central Mountain Almost Instantly. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/dinokilling-asteroid-impact-made-20kilometerhigh-central-mountain/ (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 (1980). Review of the Battlefield Exploitation and Target Acquisition System. 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

Weber, T. R. (2010). Tailored charged particle beams from single-component plasmas. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006). justices reject campaign limits in vermont case. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2001; Dai and Huang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dai and Huang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Luchtmann et al., 2014)

About the journal

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