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

Soper, A. K. (2002). Thermodynamics. Water and ice. Science 297, 1288–1289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Esmaeili-Rad, M. R., and Salahuddin, S. (2013). High performance molybdenum disulfide amorphous silicon heterojunction photodetector. Sci. Rep. 3, 2345.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stairs, I. H., Lyne, A. G., and Shemar, S. L. (2000). Evidence for free precession in a pulsar. Nature 406, 484–486.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Deng, H.-X., Chen, W., Hong, S.-T., Boycott, K. M., Gorrie, G. H., Siddique, N., et al. (2011). Mutations in UBQLN2 cause dominant X-linked juvenile and adult-onset ALS and ALS/dementia. Nature 477, 211–215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sato, T., Kammen, D. M., Duan, B., Macuha, M., Zhou, Z., Wu, J., et al. (2015). Smart Grid Standards. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Hankin, C., and Siveroni, I. eds. (2005). Static Analysis: 12th International Symposium, SAS 2005, London, UK, September 7-9, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Grzegorzewski, P. (2010). “Algorithms for Trapezoidal Approximations of Fuzzy Numbers Preserving the Expected Interval,” in Foundations of Reasoning under Uncertainty Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing., eds. B. Bouchon-Meunier, L. Magdalena, M. Ojeda-Aciego, J.-L. Verdegay, and R. R. Yager (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 85–98.

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

Davis, J. (2016). 5 Things That Make You Attractive To Mosquitoes. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/5-things-that-make-you-attractive-to-mosquitoes/ [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 (1999). U.S. Airports: Selected Airports’ Views on Federal Requirements. 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

Hantgan, A. (2013). Aspects of Bangime Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax.

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

Saslow, L. (2007). Power Hangs in Balance In Nassau Legislature. New York Times, 14LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Soper, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Soper, 2002; Esmaeili-Rad and Salahuddin, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Esmaeili-Rad and Salahuddin, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Deng et al., 2011)

About the journal

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