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

Wehrwein, P. (2012). Stem cells: Repeat to fade. Nature 492, S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuzzi, J. N., and Alexander, C. M. O. (2006). Chondrule formation in particle-rich nebular regions at least hundreds of kilometres across. Nature 441, 483–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bell, G., Hey, T., and Szalay, A. (2009). Computer science. Beyond the data deluge. Science 323, 1297–1298.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Akechi, H., Kikuchi, Y., Tojo, Y., Osanai, H., and Hasegawa, T. (2014). Neural and behavioural responses to face-likeness of objects in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Sci. Rep. 4, 3874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahonen, T. T. (2006). m-Profits. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Belomestny, D. (2015). Lévy Matters IV: Estimation for Discretely Observed Lévy Processes., eds. F. Comte, V. Genon-Catalot, H. Masuda, and M. Reiß. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gregory, S. (2009). “Finding Overlapping Communities Using Disjoint Community Detection Algorithms,” in Complex Networks: Results of the 2009 International Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2009), eds. S. Fortunato, G. Mangioni, R. Menezes, and V. Nicosia (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 47–61.

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

Davis, J. (2016). Great Whites Feasting On A Whale Carcass Off Coast Of Massachusetts Are A Good Sign For The Species. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/great-whites-feasting-on-a-whale-carcass-off-coast-of-massachusetts-are-a-good-sign-for-the-species/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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 (1971). Assessment of the Teacher Corps Program at the University of Southern California and Participating Schools in Tulare County Serving Rural-Migrant Children. 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

Monk, K. J. (2014). Effects of distractors and force feedback on an aimed movement task in a CDTI environment. 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

Witz, B., and Pilon, M. (2014). Stars’ Newest Must-Have Item: The Clippers. 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 (Wehrwein, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cuzzi and Alexander, 2006; Wehrwein, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Cuzzi and Alexander, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Akechi et al., 2014)

About the journal

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