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

Nadis, S. (2000). The sky’s the limit as radio telescope array is approved. Nature 406, 665–666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiao, L., and Liu, X. (2015). Structural basis of histone H3K27 trimethylation by an active polycomb repressive complex 2. Science 350, aac4383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zheng, N., Bu, X., and Feng, P. (2003). Synthetic design of crystalline inorganic chalcogenides exhibiting fast-ion conductivity. Nature 426, 428–432.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dehaene, S., Izard, V., Spelke, E., and Pica, P. (2008). Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures. Science 320, 1217–1220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruckmongathan, T. N. (2014). Addressing Techniques of Liquid Crystal Displays. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Morgenstern, L., Stefaneas, P., Lévy, F., Wyner, A., and Paschke, A. eds. (2013). Theory, Practice, and Applications of Rules on the Web: 7th International Symposium, RuleML 2013, Seattle, WA, USA, July 11-13, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Areces, C., and Orbe, E. (2013). “Dealing with Symmetries in Modal Tableaux,” in Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods: 22nd International Conference, TABLEAUX 2013, Nancy, France, September 16-19, 2013, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. D. Galmiche and D. Larchey-Wendling (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 13–27.

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. (2017). Smackdown! Venomous Fish Deal Drugs On Coral Reefs. IFLScience.

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 (1979). NAVSTAR Global Positioning System--A Program With Many Uncertainties. 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

Oteng, Y. (2001). Enquête sur la Pluralité Culturelle: Identité et Marginalisation dans le Roman Francophone Colonial et Postcolonial (Chraïbi, Kane, Kourouma, Boudjedra, Ben Jelloun).

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

Nir, S. M. (2017). Police Seek Photos of Central Park Related to 2016 Blast That Destroyed a Tourist’s Leg. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Nadis, 2000; Jiao and Liu, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jiao and Liu, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dehaene et al., 2008)

About the journal

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