How to format your references using the Frontiers in Public Health citation style

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

Poskett J. Mathematics: a life computed. Nature (2012) 486:321.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maceyka M, Spiegel S. Sphingolipid metabolites in inflammatory disease. Nature (2014) 510:58–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li H, Li WX, Ding SW. Induction and suppression of RNA silencing by an animal virus. Science (2002) 296:1319–1321.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sanvitto D, Pulizzi F, Shields AJ, Christianen PC, Holmes SN, Simmons MY, Ritchie DA, Maan JC, Pepper M. Observation of charge transport by negatively charged excitons. Science (2001) 294:837–839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horváth T. Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2006).

An edited book

Kakaç S, Vasiliev LL, Bayazitoğlu Y, Yener Y eds. Microscale Heat Transfer Fundamentals and Applications: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Microscale Heat Transfer — Fundamentals and Applications in Biological and Microelectromechanical Systems Cesme-Izmir, Turkey 18–30 July 2004. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. (2005). VIII, 509 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Capasso J, Kim RB, Perret D. “Hospice for the Terminally Ill and End-of-Life Care.,” In: Vadivelu N, Kaye AD, Berger JM, editors. Essentials of Palliative Care. New York, NY: Springer (2013). p. 49–71

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 Public Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. Rocket Into Northern Lights Studies The “Invisible Aurora’s” Electric Currents. IFLScience (2015) https://www.iflscience.com/technology/rocket-northern-lights-studies-invisible-aurora-s-electric-currents/ [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. Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Program Shows Success But Can Be Strengthened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (1992).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Buckley MK. A study of at-risk students’ perceptions of an online academic credit recovery program in an urban North Texas independent school district. [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University. (2012).

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

Saslow L. Southampton Buys A Girl Scout Camp. New York Times (2006)14LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Public Health
Abbreviation	Front. Public Health
ISSN (online)	2296-2565
Scope