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

Tatar, M. (2005). Comment on “Long-lived Drosophila with overexpressed dFOXO in adult fat body.” Science 307, 675; author reply 675.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berlin, S., and Ellegren, H. (2001). Evolutionary genetics. Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA. Nature 413, 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Javaux, E. J., Knoll, A. H., and Walter, M. R. (2001). Morphological and ecological complexity in early eukaryotic ecosystems. Nature 412, 66–69.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Conley, D. J., Paerl, H. W., Howarth, R. W., Boesch, D. F., Seitzinger, S. P., Havens, K. E., et al. (2009). Ecology. Controlling eutrophication: nitrogen and phosphorus. Science 323, 1014–1015.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers, E. F., Jr (2013). Aquinas and the Supreme Court. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Giannotti, F., and Pedreschi, D. eds. (2008). Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: Geographic Knowledge Discovery. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kilburn, B. B. (2011). “Psychiatric Issues in Behavioral Health Disability,” in Behavioral Health Disability: Innovations in Prevention and Management, ed. P. A. Warren (New York, NY: Springer), 105–131.

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, D. (2016). Land Carbon Storage Swelled In The Little Ice Age, Which Bodes Ill For The Future. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/land-carbon-storage-swelled-in-the-little-ice-age-which-bodes-ill-for-the-future/ (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 (2002). District of Columbia: D.C. Public Schools’ Modernization Program Faces Major Challenges. 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

Migues, K. P. (2017). A Qualitative Exploration of Retention of Experienced Teachers: Why Do They Stay? Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Dolnick, B. (2017). Cold Showers. New York Times, MM26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tatar, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Berlin and Ellegren, 2001; Tatar, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Berlin and Ellegren, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Conley et al., 2009)

About the journal

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