How to format your references using the Frontiers in Predictive Toxicity citation style

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

Kabat, P. (2012). Systems science for policy evaluation. Science 336, 1398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Borgdorff, A. J., and Choquet, D. (2002). Regulation of AMPA receptor lateral movements. Nature 417, 649–653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller-Butterworth, C. M., Jacobs, D. S., and Harley, E. H. (2003). Strong population substructure is correlated with morphology and ecology in a migratory bat. Nature 424, 187–191.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Inoue, K., Kohda, T., Sugimoto, M., Sado, T., Ogonuki, N., Matoba, S., et al. (2010). Impeding Xist expression from the active X chromosome improves mouse somatic cell nuclear transfer. Science 330, 496–499.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo, M. (2014). Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Navab, N., Hornegger, J., Wells, W. M., and Frangi, A. eds. (2015). Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2015: 18th International Conference, Munich, Germany, October 5-9, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mielke, A. (2015). “Variational Approaches and Methods for Dissipative Material Models with Multiple Scales,” in Analysis and Computation of Microstructure in Finite Plasticity, eds. S. Conti and K. Hackl (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 125–155.

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 Predictive Toxicity.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017). China To Get Vertical Gardens In 2018 To Help Tackle Pollution. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-to-get-vertical-gardens-in-2018-to-help-tackle-smog/ (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 (1973). Expenditures for Telephone Services and Adequacy of Controls Over Such Services. 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

Koonin, L. M. (2013). Acceptability of pharmacies serving as primary dispensers of antiviral drugs during an influenza pandemic: Perspectives of pharmacy executives. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010). To Soccer Fan, Train Whistle Hits Perfect Pitch. New York Times, SP8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kabat, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Borgdorff and Choquet, 2002; Kabat, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Borgdorff and Choquet, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Inoue et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Predictive Toxicity
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology