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

Stöhr, K. (2010). Vaccinate before the next pandemic? Nature 465, 161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marx, F. G., and Uhen, M. D. (2010). Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales. Science 327, 993–996.

A journal article with 3 authors

Durham, W. M., Kessler, J. O., and Stocker, R. (2009). Disruption of vertical motility by shear triggers formation of thin phytoplankton layers. Science 323, 1067–1070.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Katoch, A., Sun, G.-J., Choi, S.-W., Hishita, S., Kulish, V. V., Wu, P., et al. (2014). Acceptor-compensated charge transport and surface chemical reactions in Au-implanted SnO₂ nanowires. Sci. Rep. 4, 4622.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, L., and Tan, K. C. (2005). Modern Industrial Automation Software Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bertram, A. (2015). Solid Mechanics: Theory, Modeling, and Problems., ed. R. Glüge. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, W. T., Kang, S. H., and Joo, E. K. (2005). “Performance Improvement of Turbo Code Based on the Extrinsic Information Transition Characteristics,” in Cryptography and Coding: 10th IMA International Conference, Cirencester, UK, December 19-21, 2005. Proceedings, ed. N. P. Smart (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 47–58.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Down Syndrome Theory On Hobbit Species Doesn’t Hold To Scrutiny. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/down-syndrome-theory-hobbit-species-doesn-t-hold-scrutiny/ (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 (1977). Maritime Administration’s Satellite Communications Program: Is It Still Needed? 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

Gowetski, D. B. (2012). Manipulation of DNA topology using an artificial DNA-looping protein. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2014). Friday File. New York Times, C32.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stöhr, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Marx and Uhen, 2010; Stöhr, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Marx and Uhen, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Katoch et al., 2014)

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