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

Goldston, D. (2008). Getting it across. Nature 454, 16.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mounce, R. C. P., and Wills, M. A. (2011). Phylogenetic position of Diania challenged. Nature 476, E1; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foley, S., Tiepolo, M., and Vannucci, R. (2002). Growth of early continental crust controlled by melting of amphibolite in subduction zones. Nature 417, 837–840.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Maxmen, A., Browne, W. E., Martindale, M. Q., and Giribet, G. (2005). Neuroanatomy of sea spiders implies an appendicular origin of the protocerebral segment. Nature 437, 1144–1148.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lam, J. (2014). Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pronzato, L. (2013). Design of Experiments in Nonlinear Models: Asymptotic Normality, Optimality Criteria and Small-Sample Properties., ed. A. Pázman. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cherkaoui, M., and Capolungo, L. (2009). “Predictive Capabilities and Limitations of Molecular Simulations,” in Atomistic and Continuum Modeling of Nanocrystalline Materials: Deformation Mechanisms and Scale Transition, ed. L. Capolungo (Boston, MA: Springer US), 81–116.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015). This Robotic Assassin Will Hunt And Kill Starfish That Are Destroying The Great Barrier Reef. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-assassinator-will-hunt-and-kill-coral-reef-destroying-starfish/ (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 (2014). Federal Student Loans: Oversight of Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation Needs Strengthening. 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

Miranda, P. J. (2015). Tightly-coupled sulfur-cycling microbial mats of the White Point hydrothermal vent field, CA: An analog for deep-sea vents. 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

Chira, S. (2017). Well, What Should Hillary Clinton Do? New York Times, SR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2008; Mounce and Wills, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Mounce and Wills, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Maxmen et al., 2005)

About the journal

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