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

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

Macilwain, C. (2014). Wanted: Fraud-buster with political antennae. Nature 507, 275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gut, P., and Verdin, E. (2013). The nexus of chromatin regulation and intermediary metabolism. Nature 502, 489–498.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, L. Y., Ou, N., and Lu, Q.-B. (2013). Antioxidant induces DNA damage, cell death and mutagenicity in human lung and skin normal cells. Sci. Rep. 3, 3169.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Itkis, M. E., Borondics, F., Yu, A., and Haddon, R. C. (2006). Bolometric infrared photoresponse of suspended single-walled carbon nanotube films. Science 312, 413–416.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D. W. (2008). Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Müller, P. (2015). Bayesian Nonparametric Data Analysis., eds. F. A. Quintana, A. Jara, and T. Hanson. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Owen, L. A. (2014). “Himalayan Landscapes of India,” in Landscapes and Landforms of India, ed. V. S. Kale (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 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 Striated Muscle Physiology.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). See A Rare Monkey “Chatter” To A Camera. 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 (1990). Space Program Safety: Funding for NASA’s Safety Organizations Should Be Centralized. 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

Dammann, N. M. (2009). Living in the edge: Community based governance in the aquatic terrestrial zone. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Wagner, J. (2017). Mets’ Slide Drags On As a Lead Vanishes. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gut and Verdin, 2013; Macilwain, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gut and Verdin, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Itkis et al., 2006)

About the journal

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