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

Wain-Hobson, S. (2006). The third Bond. Nature 439, 539.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuspa, S. H., and Epstein, E. H., Jr (2005). Cancer. An anchor for tumor cell invasion. Science 307, 1727–1728.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chu, L., Xiao, K.-J., and Yu, J.-Q. (2014). Room-temperature enantioselective C-H iodination via kinetic resolution. Science 346, 451–455.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang, J., Kaasik, K., Blackburn, M. R., and Lee, C. C. (2006). Constant darkness is a circadian metabolic signal in mammals. Nature 439, 340–343.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibrahim, R. A. (2017). Handbook of Structural Life Assessment. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Altmann, J., Neumann, D., and Fahringer, T. eds. (2008). Grid Economics and Business Models: 5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Argyros, A. A., and Lourakis, M. I. A. (2006). “Vision-Based Interpretation of Hand Gestures for Remote Control of a Computer Mouse,” in Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction: ECCV 2006 Workshop on HCI, Graz, Austria, May 13, 2006. Proceedings, eds. T. S. Huang, N. Sebe, M. S. Lew, V. Pavlović, M. Kölsch, A. Galata, et al. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 40–51.

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

Davis, J. (2016). Sharks Sense Prey Using Proton-Conducting Jelly. 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 (1978). Review of ROTC Consortium Agreement. 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

Blumenthal, P. M. (2014). Local Land Use Regulatory Regimes and Residential Development Outcomes: An Analysis of Subdivision Review in Four Counties in the DC Region. 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

Phillips, K. M. (2009). In Mexico, Outgunned and Underpaid. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wain-Hobson, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Yuspa and Epstein, 2005; Wain-Hobson, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Yuspa and Epstein, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2006)

About the journal

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