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

McKeon, B. J. (2010). Applied physics. Controlling turbulence. Science 327, 1462–1463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harvey, C. D., and Svoboda, K. (2007). Locally dynamic synaptic learning rules in pyramidal neuron dendrites. Nature 450, 1195–1200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohmann, C., Myhr, K. L., and Wong, R. O. L. (2002). Transmitter-evoked local calcium release stabilizes developing dendrites. Nature 418, 177–181.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wright, B. J., O’Brien, S., Hazi, A., and Kent, S. (2014). Increased systolic blood pressure reactivity to acute stress is related with better self-reported health. Sci. Rep. 4, 6882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler, H., Coleman, B., and Hofmann, K. (2015). Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Coates, A. R. M. ed. (2012). Antibiotic Resistance. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jargalsaikhan, L. (2013). “Long-Term Study of the Relationship Between Precipitation and Productivity in the Main Pasture Vegetation of a Steppe Ecosystem in Eastern Mongolia,” in The Mongolian Ecosystem Network: Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes Ecological Research Monographs., eds. N. Yamamura, N. Fujita, and A. Maekawa (Tokyo: Springer Japan), 33–42.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). Astronomers Use “Light Echo” To Measure Size Of Star’s Disk. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-use-light-echo-measure-size-stars-disk/ [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 (1996). Programs for Land-Grant Schools. 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

Iwuagwu, C. I. (2017). Preventing the Spread of HIV Among Homeless Youth in California.

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

Wagner, J. (2016). Cespedes Powers the Mets Again. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McKeon, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Harvey and Svoboda, 2007; McKeon, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Harvey and Svoboda, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Wright 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

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