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

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

Holdren, J. P. (2005). Retrospective. Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005). Science 310, 633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lumaret, R., and Ouazzani, N. (2001). Plant genetics. Ancient wild olives in Mediterranean forests. Nature 413, 700.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, M., Butka, E., and Wang, X. (2014). Comprehensive quantification of triacylglycerols in soybean seeds by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry with multiple neutral loss scans. Sci. Rep. 4, 6581.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rad, R., Rad, L., Wang, W., Cadinanos, J., Vassiliou, G., Rice, S., et al. (2010). PiggyBac transposon mutagenesis: a tool for cancer gene discovery in mice. Science 330, 1104–1107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams, D. L. (2012). Ophthalmology of Exotic Pets. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Karmakar, S. (2016). Induction Motor Fault Diagnosis: Approach through Current Signature Analysis., eds. S. Chattopadhyay, M. Mitra, and S. Sengupta. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Haacke, E. M., Raza, W., Wu, B., and Kou, Z. (2013). “The Presence of Venous Damage and Microbleeds in Traumatic Brain Injury and the Potential Future Role of Angiographic and Perfusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” in Cerebral Blood Flow, Metabolism, and Head Trauma: The Pathotrajectory of Traumatic Brain Injury, eds. C. W. Kreipke and J. A. Rafols (New York, NY: Springer), 75–94.

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 Vascular Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Million-year-old Footprints in Britain May Alter “Out of Africa” Timeline. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/million-year-old-footprints-britain-may-alter-“out-africa”-timeline/ (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 (2014). Emergency Transportation Relief: Agencies Could Improve Collaboration Begun during Hurricane Sandy Response. 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

Wuite, J. (2006). Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Three East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers and Their Floating Ice Tongues. Columbus, OH: Ohio 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

Baker, L. (2007). A Canadian Condo Boom. New York Times, 1111.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holdren, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lumaret and Ouazzani, 2001; Holdren, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lumaret and Ouazzani, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rad et al., 2010)

About the journal

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