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

Russo, G. (2008). Biotech in Bangalore. Nature 452, 660–661.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bao, J., and Bawendi, M. G. (2015). A colloidal quantum dot spectrometer. Nature 523, 67–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liljas, A., Ehrenberg, M., and Åqvist, J. (2011). Comment on “The mechanism for activation of GTP hydrolysis on the ribosome.” Science 333, 37; author reply 37.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sedkov, Y., Cho, E., Petruk, S., Cherbas, L., Smith, S. T., Jones, R. S., et al. (2003). Methylation at lysine 4 of histone H3 in ecdysone-dependent development of Drosophila. Nature 426, 78–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chinesta, F., Cescotto, S., Cueto, E., and Lorong, P. (2013). Natural Element Method for the Simulation of Structures and Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Debreceny, R. (2007). New Dimensions of Business Reporting and XBRL. , eds. C. Felden and M. Piechocki Wiesbaden: DUV.

A chapter in an edited book

Bottin, F., and Longo, M. (2011). “The History of Philosophy from Eclecticism to Pietism,” in Models of the History of Philosophy: Volume II: From Cartesian Age to Brucker International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d’histoire des idées., eds. G. Santinello and G. Piaia (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 301–385.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). Could Wormholes Give Us The Long-Sought Theory Of Quantum Gravity? 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 (1979). Student Eligibility and Other Problems in Federally Funded and Operated Schools in Puerto Rico. 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

Kim, Y. I. (2008). Essays on Volatility Risk, Asset Returns and Consumption-Based Asset Pricing.

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

Chira, S. (2017). Another Powerful Woman. Same Sexist Attacks. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Russo, 2008; Bao and Bawendi, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bao and Bawendi, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Sedkov et al., 2003)

About the journal

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

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