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

Kleypas, J. (2015). Oceans. Invisible barriers to dispersal. Science 348, 1086–1087.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bourc’his, D., and Bestor, T. H. (2004). Meiotic catastrophe and retrotransposon reactivation in male germ cells lacking Dnmt3L. Nature 431, 96–99.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cronin, T. W., Caldwell, R. L., and Marshall, J. (2001). Sensory adaptation. Tunable colour vision in a mantis shrimp. Nature 411, 547–548.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roger, T., David, J., Glauser, M. P., and Calandra, T. (2001). MIF regulates innate immune responses through modulation of Toll-like receptor 4. Nature 414, 920–924.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stevenson, O. (2008). Neglected Children and Their Families. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Weber, W. G., Thoma, M., Ostendorf, A., and Chisholm, L. eds. (2012). Democratic Competences and Social Practices in Organizations. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, W., Fu, Z.-J., and Chen, C. S. (2014). “Boundary-Type RBF Collocation Methods,” in Recent Advances in Radial Basis Function Collocation Methods, eds. Z.-J. Fu and C. S. Chen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 51–87.

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

Luntz, S. (2015). Bionic Leaf Uses Bacteria To Convert Sunlight Into Fuel. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bionic-leaf-turns-carbon-dioxide-fuel/ (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 (1994). Ship Acquisitions. 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

Einziger, H. (2010). Incidence Hopf algebras: Antipodes, forest formulas, and noncrossing partitions. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Landler, M., and Risen, J. (2017). Mineral Wealth In Afghanistan Tempts Trump. 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 (Kleypas, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bourc’his and Bestor, 2004; Kleypas, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bourc’his and Bestor, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Roger et al., 2001)

About the journal

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