How to format your references using the Frontiers in Radiation Oncology citation style

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

Brumfiel, G. (2007). Quantum leap of faith. Nature 446, 245.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowry, A. R., and Pérez-Gussinyé, M. (2011). The role of crustal quartz in controlling Cordilleran deformation. Nature 471, 353–357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, J., Weidner, D. J., and Vaughan, M. T. (2002). The strength of Mg(0.9)Fe(0.1)SiO3 perovskite at high pressure and temperature. Nature 419, 824–826.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jin, Q., Wang, L., Xia, C.-Y., and Wang, Z. (2014). Spontaneous symmetry breaking in interdependent networked game. Sci. Rep. 4, 4095.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caban, S., Mehlführer, C., Rupp, M., and Wrulich, M. (2011). Evaluation of HSDPA and LTE. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cai, Z., and Liu, S. eds. (2013). Applications of MALDI-TOF Spectroscopy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, X., and Platt, J. L. (2011). “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Mammalian Cell Fusion,” in Cell Fusion in Health and Disease, eds. T. Dittmar and K. S. Zänker (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 33–64.

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 Radiation Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Self-Sustaining Urban Ecosystem Discovered In Abandoned Building In Thailand. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/self-sustaining-urban-ecosystem-discovered-abandoned-building-thailand/ (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 (1992). [Comments on Cincinnati Airport Bond Issue]. 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

Casco, D. (2014). Consonance: An inter play of music and design to evoke curiosity and awareness of our musical identity. 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

Kelly, M. (1992). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton’s Camp Says It Is Wary Of Perot Inroads. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel, 2007; Lowry and Pérez-Gussinyé, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Lowry and Pérez-Gussinyé, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Radiation Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology