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

Carlson, E. W. (2015). Condensed-matter physics: Charge topology in superconductors. Nature 525, 329–330.

A journal article with 2 authors

Garrott, R. A., and Oli, M. K. (2013). Conservation. A critical crossroad for BLM’s wild horse program. Science 341, 847–848.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saikia, A., Frost, D. J., and Rubie, D. C. (2008). Splitting of the 520-kilometer seismic discontinuity and chemical heterogeneity in the mantle. Science 319, 1515–1518.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fujiki, R., Hashiba, W., Sekine, H., Yokoyama, A., Chikanishi, T., Ito, S., et al. (2011). GlcNAcylation of histone H2B facilitates its monoubiquitination. Nature 480, 557–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Devolder, P., Janssen, J., and Manca, R. (2012). Stochastic Methods for Pension Funds. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Massart, P. (2007). Concentration Inequalities and Model Selection: Ecole d’Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXIII - 2003., ed. J. Picard. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Callender, C. (2013). “Sturmian Canons,” in Mathematics and Computation in Music: 4th International Conference, MCM 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 12-14, 2013. Proceedings, eds. J. Yust, J. Wild, and J. A. Burgoyne (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 64–75.

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. (2015). The Mathematics Of Pixar Movies. 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). Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Ensure Better Coordination When Approving Air Traffic Control Systems. 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

Williams, A. (2010). Kindergarten through third grade reading tutors in Northeast Mississippi. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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

Barron, J. (2017). A Call to Action After Swastikas Are Carved Into a Church Door. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carlson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Garrott and Oli, 2013; Carlson, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Garrott and Oli, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Fujiki et al., 2011)

About the journal

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