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

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

Newman, M. (2000). Applied mathematics. The power of design. Nature 405, 412–413.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scharfman, H. E., and Hen, R. (2007). Neuroscience. Is more neurogenesis always better? Science 315, 336–338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gélinas, Y., Baldock, J. A., and Hedges, J. I. (2001). Organic carbon composition of marine sediments: effect of oxygen exposure on oil generation potential. Science 294, 145–148.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang, A. S., Estecio, M. R. H., Garcia-Manero, G., Kantarjian, H. M., and Issa, J.-P. J. (2003). Comment on “Chromosomal instability and tumors promoted by DNA hypomethylation” and “Induction of tumors in nice by genomic hypomethylation.” Science 302, 1153; author reply 1153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nakhjiri, M., and Nakhjiri, M. (2006). AAA and Network Security for Mobile Access. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bourgeois, A. G., and Zheng, S. Q. eds. (2008). Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 8th International Conference, ICA3PP 2008, Cyprus, June 9-11, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gonçalves, N., José, R., and Baquero, C. (2014). “Collaborative and Privacy-Aware Sensing for Observing Urban Movement Patterns,” in Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security: 8th International Workshop, DPM 2013, and 6th International Workshop, SETOP 2013, Egham, UK, September 12-13, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, eds. J. Garcia-Alfaro, G. Lioudakis, N. Cuppens-Boulahia, S. Foley, and W. M. Fitzgerald (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 51–65.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). How Virtual Reality Can Help Treat Sex Offenders. 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 (2015). TSA Acquisitions: Further Actions Needed to Improve Efficiency of Screening Technology Test and Evaluation. 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

Kang, E. Y. (2010). Late Twentieth-Century Piano Concert Etudes: A Style Study. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Kelly, S. (1992). There’s Nothing Like a Dame. New York Times, 729.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Newman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Newman, 2000; Scharfman and Hen, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Scharfman and Hen, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2003)

About the journal

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