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

Chin, J. W. (2012). Molecular biology. Reprogramming the genetic code. Science 336, 428–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, X., and Zhou, Z. (2004). Palaeontology: pterosaur embryo from the Early Cretaceous. Nature 429, 621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kernbauer, E., Ding, Y., and Cadwell, K. (2014). An enteric virus can replace the beneficial function of commensal bacteria. Nature 516, 94–98.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Horie, M., Honda, T., Suzuki, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Daito, T., Oshida, T., et al. (2010). Endogenous non-retroviral RNA virus elements in mammalian genomes. Nature 463, 84–87.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarisky, D. (2012). Scriptural Interpretation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ohya, M. (2011). Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Information and Computation and Its Applications to Nano- and Bio-systems., ed. I. Volovich. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Klemas, V. V. (2016). “Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation,” in Seafloor Mapping along Continental Shelves: Research and Techniques for Visualizing Benthic Environments, eds. C. W. Finkl and C. Makowski (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 125–140.

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

Davis, J. (2017). How Did Carnivorous Plants Evolve Their Taste For Meat? 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 (2010). Aviation Safety: Improved Data Quality and Analysis Capabilities Are Needed as FAA Plans a Risk-Based Approach to Safety Oversight. 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

Carter, I. M. (2015). The discourse of the divine: Radical traditions of Black feminism, musicking, and myth within the Black public sphere (Civil Rights to the present). Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Vecsey, G. (2010). Coach Follows His Father While Leading His Way. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chin, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Wang and Zhou, 2004; Chin, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Zhou, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Horie et al., 2010)

About the journal

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