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

Gong, P. (2012). China’s new leaders must keep science in focus. Nature 491, 161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shibasaki, M., and Masataka, N. (2014). The color red distorts time perception for men, but not for women. Sci. Rep. 4, 5899.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hermans, T. M., Frauenrath, H., and Stellacci, F. (2013). Materials science. Droplets out of equilibrium. Science 341, 243–244.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kwiek, N. C., Halpin, M. J., Reiter, J. P., Hoeffler, L. A., and Schwartz-Bloom, R. D. (2007). Relevance. Pharmacology in the high-school classroom. Science 317, 1871–1872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberty, R. A. (2006). Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathmatica. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kalinin, A. P. (2013). The Parathyroid Glands: Imaging and Surgery., eds. A. V. Pavlov, Y. K. Alexandrov, I. V. Kotova, Y. N. Patrunov, and S. N. Pamputis. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dantas, Y. G., Lemos, M. O. O., Fonseca, I. E., and Nigam, V. (2016). “Formal Specification and Verification of a Selective Defense for TDoS Attacks,” in Rewriting Logic and Its Applications: 11th International Workshop, WRLA 2016, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-3, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, ed. D. Lucanu (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 82–97.

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. (2015). New Dog Robot Can Run and Climb Just Like The Real Thing. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/meet-spot-newest-dog-robot-boston-dynamics/ (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 (1993). Space Transportation: The Content and Uses of Shuttle Cost Estimates. 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

Ding, H. (2012). Mode of Action for Hexavalent Chromium Carcinogenicity in Drinking Water. 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

Kelly, I. (2004). Hamburger Helper. New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gong, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gong, 2012; Shibasaki and Masataka, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shibasaki and Masataka, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kwiek et al., 2007)

About the journal

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