How to format your references using the Frontiers in Bone Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Bone Research. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Holmes, D. (2015). Addiction: 4 big questions. Nature 522, S63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lane, J., and Bertuzzi, S. (2011). Research funding. Measuring the results of science investments. Science 331, 678–680.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arendt, D., Technau, U., and Wittbrodt, J. (2001). Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut. Nature 409, 81–85.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Park, T., Ronning, F., Yuan, H. Q., Salamon, M. B., Movshovich, R., Sarrao, J. L., et al. (2006). Hidden magnetism and quantum criticality in the heavy fermion superconductor CeRhIn5. Nature 440, 65–68.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sandén, B. I. (2011). Design of Multithreaded Software. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ceroni, P. ed. (2012). The Exploration of Supramolecular Systems and Nanostructures by Photochemical Techniques. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Heinz, S., Friedman, S., and Churazov, E. (2015). “Vortex Generation by Shock-Bubble Interaction in Galaxy Clusters,” in 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 1: Volume 1, eds. R. Bonazza and D. Ranjan (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 35–42.

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 Bone Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Nine Surprising Facts About Breasts You Probably Didn’t Know. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nine-surprising-facts-about-breasts-you-probably-didn-t-know/ (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 (1984). GAO Request for Additional SES Positions. 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

Gilbert, C. (2017). Factors Associated With Dietetic Interns’ Knowledge of Sodium and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2005). Life Is Hard in Russia, And the Beds Are, Too. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lane and Bertuzzi, 2011; Holmes, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lane and Bertuzzi, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Park et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Bone Research
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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