How to format your references using the Frontiers in Respiratory Pharmacology citation style

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

Gehrels, T. (2000). Brains, courage and integrity. Nature 404, 335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shiroguchi, K., and Kinosita, K., Jr (2007). Myosin V walks by lever action and Brownian motion. Science 316, 1208–1212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hochberg, Y. V., Serrano, C., and Ziedonis, R. (2015). ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Intangible but bankable. Science 348, 1202.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Millgate, A. G., Pogson, B. J., Wilson, I. W., Kutchan, T. M., Zenk, M. H., Gerlach, W. L., et al. (2004). Analgesia: morphine-pathway block in top1 poppies. Nature 431, 413–414.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa, F., Gautier, C., Labouré, E., and Revol, B. (2013). Electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Electronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chakraborti, S., and Dhalla, N. S. eds. (2016). Regulation of Membrane Na+-K+ ATPase. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Fiori, P. L., Rappelli, P., Dessì, D., Hirt, R., Gould, S., Tachezy, J., et al. (2016). “Trichomonas,” in Molecular Parasitology: Protozoan Parasites and their Molecules, eds. J. Walochnik and M. Duchêne (Vienna: Springer), 115–155.

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 Respiratory Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Would You Eat Synthetic Shrimp? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/startup-making-synthetic-lab-grown-shrimp/ (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). Education’s Library: Actions Needed to Improve Usefulness. 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

Davies, G. L. (2015). An analysis of Pat Metheny’s and Lyle Mays’s “Third Wind”: Arranging techniques and performance considerations. 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

Crow, K. (2002). Lehman Bros. Grapples With Arts Zoning Rules. New York Times, 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gehrels, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gehrels, 2000; Shiroguchi and Kinosita, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Shiroguchi and Kinosita, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Millgate et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Respiratory Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology