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

Lee, P. A. (2008). Physics. An end to the drought of quantum spin liquids. Science 321, 1306–1307.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf, D., and Goff, S. P. (2009). Embryonic stem cells use ZFP809 to silence retroviral DNAs. Nature 458, 1201–1204.

A journal article with 3 authors

Immerzeel, W. W., van Beek, L. P. H., and Bierkens, M. F. P. (2010). Climate change will affect the Asian water towers. Science 328, 1382–1385.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Clément, G., Ahlberg, P. E., Blieck, A., Blom, H., Clack, J. A., Poty, E., et al. (2004). Palaeogeography: Devonian tetrapod from western Europe. Nature 427, 412–413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ryan, T. P. (2007). Modern Engineering Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gan, L. (2014). Data you need to know about China: Research Report of China Household Finance Survey•2012., eds. Z. Yin, N. Jia, S. Xu, S. Ma, and L. Zheng. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

He, Y., Dong, J., and Bai, R. (2011). “The Evaluation Model of Financial Competitiveness in Telecom Enterprises,” in Advances in Applied Economics, Business and Development: International Symposium, ISAEBD 2011, Dalian, China, August 6-7, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, ed. Q. Zhou (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 24–32.

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

Hamilton, K. (2014). Watch A Man Climb Into An Active Volcano. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/video-man-climbs-active-volcano/ (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 (2004). Aviation Security: Further Steps Needed to Strengthen the Security of Commercial Airport Perimeters and Access Controls. 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

Shibata, C. L. (2017). Building positive body image in adolescent girls: An evaluation of a body image prevention program. 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

Hubbard, B. (2017). As Syrian War Drags On, Assad’s Grip Tightens. 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 (Lee, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lee, 2008; Wolf and Goff, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wolf and Goff, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Clément et al., 2004)

About the journal

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