How to format your references using the Frontiers in Pituitary Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Pituitary Endocrinology. 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

Betancourt, J. L. (2000). PALEOCLIMATE: The Amazon Reveals Its Secrets--Partly. Science 290, 2274–2275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu, L., and Lenardo, M. J. (2003). Immunology. The paracaspase connection. Science 302, 1515–1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, F., Tillberg, P. W., and Boyden, E. S. (2015). Optical imaging. Expansion microscopy. Science 347, 543–548.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Foley, J. A., Ramankutty, N., Brauman, K. A., Cassidy, E. S., Gerber, J. S., Johnston, M., et al. (2011). Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 478, 337–342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheng, V. S., and Tong, J. C. (2017). Building Sustainability in East Asia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Stamm, M. ed. (2008). Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces: Characterization, Modification and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sojka, A., and Vázquez-García, R. (2013). “The Enlarged EU in a Globalized World: A Comparative Analysis of Elite and Public Opinion Support for a Common European Foreign Policy,” in Global Power Europe - Vol. 1: Theoretical and Institutional Approaches to the EU’s External Relations, eds. A. Boening, J.-F. Kremer, and A. van Loon (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 55–72.

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 Pituitary Endocrinology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Belgian Neanderthals Were Butchering Their Dead. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/belgian-neanderthals-were-butchering-their-dead/ (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 (2010). Cybersecurity: Key Challenges Need to Be Addressed to Improve Research and Development. 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

Lackey, G. M. (2015). The efficacy of using a natural soil additive for the establishment, survival and diversity of native prairie and spontaneously colonizing plant communities on unirrigated green roofs in a humid subtropical climate. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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

Crow, K. (2003). Check That Label, Jake. I Think It’s Chinatown. New York Times, 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Betancourt, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Betancourt, 2000; Yu and Lenardo, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Yu and Lenardo, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Foley et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Pituitary Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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