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

Alroy, J. (2001). A multispecies overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Science 292, 1893–1896.

A journal article with 2 authors

Garrett, S., and Rosenthal, J. J. C. (2012). RNA editing underlies temperature adaptation in K+ channels from polar octopuses. Science 335, 848–851.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gwak, G., Ko, J., and Ju, H. (2014). Effects of porous properties on cold-start behavior of polymer electrolyte fuel cells from sub-zero to normal operating temperatures. Sci. Rep. 4, 5770.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gopal, J., Hasan, N., Manikandan, M., and Wu, H.-F. (2013). Bacterial toxicity/compatibility of platinum nanospheres, nanocuboids and nanoflowers. Sci. Rep. 3, 1260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lad, B. K., Shrivastava, D., and Kulkarni, M. S. (2016). Machine Tool Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Katsikides, S., and Koktsidis, P. I. eds. (2015). Societies in Transition: Economic, Political and Security Transformations in Contemporary Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Tan, M. (2015). “Applying Disciplinary Intuitions to Classroom Contexts: A Constructivist Perspective,” in Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environments, ed. K. Y. T. Lim (Singapore: Springer), 41–52.

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. (2015). US Beekeepers Lost 40% Of Bees Last Year Alone. IFLScience.

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 (2004). Local Television Act: Status of Spending for Fiscal Year 2003. 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

Tse, J. (2009). An explication of the Hilbert basis theorem and its relation to school mathematics. 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

Kinsley, M. (2017). Trump the Transparent. New York Times, SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alroy, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Alroy, 2001; Garrett and Rosenthal, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Garrett and Rosenthal, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Gopal et al., 2013)

About the journal

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