How to format your references using the Frontiers in Pharmacology of Ion Channels and Channelopathies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Pharmacology of Ion Channels and Channelopathies. 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

Smaglik, P. (2004). The joy of the lab. Nature 431, 227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schoenemann, B., and Clarkson, E. N. K. (2013). Discovery of some 400 million year-old sensory structures in the compound eyes of trilobites. Sci. Rep. 3, 1429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bi, X., Corpina, R. A., and Goldberg, J. (2002). Structure of the Sec23/24-Sar1 pre-budding complex of the COPII vesicle coat. Nature 419, 271–277.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schmid, A., Dordick, J. S., Hauer, B., Kiener, A., Wubbolts, M., and Witholt, B. (2001). Industrial biocatalysis today and tomorrow. Nature 409, 258–268.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anisman, H. (2015). Stress and Your Health. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Reiner, G. ed. (2009). Rapid Modelling for Increasing Competitiveness: Tools and Mindset. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kelly, P. F. (2012). “Class, Migration, and Identity in a Philippine Village,” in Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia, eds. C. Plüss and K.-B. Chan (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 53–70.

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 Ion Channels and Channelopathies.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). This Polymer Can Change Shape By Itself. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/this-polymer-can-change-shape-by-itself/ (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 (2014). Healthcare.gov: Information Security and Privacy Controls Should Be Enhanced to Address Weaknesses. 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

Moncur, H. B. (2014). Exploring primary caregivers’ perceptions of the effects of secondhand marijuana smoke on children: A quantitative study. 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

Feeney, K. (2008). A Produce Auction With an Eye to Survival. New York Times, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2004; Schoenemann and Clarkson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Schoenemann and Clarkson, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Schmid et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Pharmacology of Ion Channels and Channelopathies
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology