How to format your references using the Frontiers in Renal and Epithelial Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Renal and Epithelial Physiology. 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

Mézard, M. (2007). Computer science. Where are the exemplars? Science 315, 949–951.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pennycook, S. J., and Kalinin, S. V. (2014). Microscopy: Hasten high resolution. Nature 515, 487–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alvarado, D., Klein, D. E., and Lemmon, M. A. (2009). ErbB2 resembles an autoinhibited invertebrate epidermal growth factor receptor. Nature 461, 287–291.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matsuda, T., Bebenek, K., Masutani, C., Hanaoka, F., and Kunkel, T. A. (2000). Low fidelity DNA synthesis by human DNA polymerase-eta. Nature 404, 1011–1013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia, T., and Anzur, T. (2011). Power Performance. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Celesti, A., and Leitner, P. eds. (2016). Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: Workshops of ESOCC 2015, Taormina, Italy, September 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pacyna, J. (2011). “Environmental Emissions of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants,” in Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future: School of Environmental Research - Organized by Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, eds. M. Quante, R. Ebinghaus, and G. Flöser (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 49–56.

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 Renal and Epithelial Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013). For Ocean Animals, ‘Death By Plastic’ Could Be Occurring More Frequently. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ocean-animals-‘death-plastic’-could-be-occurring-more-frequently/ (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 (2005). Air Traffic Operations: The Federal Aviation Administration Needs to Address Major Air Traffic Operating Cost Control Changes. 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

Shockley, C. (2010). Mental health parity law: A policy analysis. 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

Billard, M. (2010). Cousin Fran. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mézard, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Mézard, 2007; Pennycook and Kalinin, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pennycook and Kalinin, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Matsuda et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Renal and Epithelial Physiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)