How to format your references using the Frontiers in Systems and Translational Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Systems and Translational Endocrinology. 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

von Heijne, G. (2005). Microbiology. Translocation of anthrax toxin: lord of the rings. Science 309, 709–710.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neuman, Y., and Cohen, Y. (2014). A vectorial semantics approach to personality assessment. Sci. Rep. 4, 4761.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lovejoy, C. O., Heiple, K. G., and Meindl, R. S. (2001). Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature 410, 325–326.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hörz, F., Muller, R. A., Becker, T. A., Culler, T. S., Karner, D. B., and Renne, P. R. (2000). Time-variable cratering rates? Science 288, 2095a.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Homès, B. (2012). Fundamentals of Software Testing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bandyopadhyay, B. (2009). Sliding Mode Control Using Novel Sliding Surfaces., eds. F. Deepak and K.-S. Kim. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmidt, H. (2016). “Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion,” in Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe, eds. D. H. Barrett, L. W. Ortmann, A. Dawson, C. Saenz, A. Reis, and G. Bolan (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 137–176.

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 Systems and Translational Endocrinology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015). Diesel Fumes Make It Difficult For Bees To Recognize Scents. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/diesel-fumes-make-it-difficult-bees-recognize-scents/ (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 (1975). Need for More Effective Controls Over Computerized Payroll-Processing Operations. 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

Osterhout, H. L. (2010). No More “Mad Money”: Salvaging the Commander’s Emergency Response Program. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017). Activist Hedge Fund Picks A New Target: ComScore. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Heijne, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (von Heijne, 2005; Neuman and Cohen, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Neuman and Cohen, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hörz et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Systems and Translational Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
Scope