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

Verma, I. (2005). Then and now. Nature 436, 478–479.

A journal article with 2 authors

Awasthi, A., and Kuchroo, V. K. (2009). Immunology. The yin and yang of follicular helper T cells. Science 325, 953–955.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao, S., Li, R., and Chen, M. (2013). Detecting sedimentary cycles using autocorrelation of grain size. Sci. Rep. 3, 1653.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Maeda, M., Lu, S., Shaulsky, G., Miyazaki, Y., Kuwayama, H., Tanaka, Y., et al. (2004). Periodic signaling controlled by an oscillatory circuit that includes protein kinases ERK2 and PKA. Science 304, 875–878.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L. S., Simões, R., and Gervásio, H. (2012). Design of Steel Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Humbert, M., Evgenov, O. V., and Stasch, J.-P. eds. (2013). Pharmacotherapy of Pulmonary Hypertension. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Olivieri, A., and Pitacco, E. (2015). “Life Insurance: Pricing,” in Introduction to Insurance Mathematics: Technical and Financial Features of Risk Transfers, ed. E. Pitacco (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 217–270.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016). Gas Cloud Glows Pink In The Light From New Stars. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/gas-cloud-glow-pink-light-new-stars/ (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 (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Must Be Taken Now to Address Slow Pace of Federal Progress. 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

Tabone, B. (2013). Knowledge and awareness of the Female Athlete Triad among female collegiate athletes at California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr., and Baker, A. L. (2017). Trial to Open in Case That Highlights Complaints About Justice System. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Verma, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Verma, 2005; Awasthi and Kuchroo, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Awasthi and Kuchroo, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Maeda et al., 2004)

About the journal

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