How to format your references using the Frontiers in Cardiac Electrophysiology citation style

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

Nadis, S. (2000). The sky’s the limit as radio telescope array is approved. Nature 406, 665–666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finney, L. A., and O’Halloran, T. V. (2003). Transition metal speciation in the cell: insights from the chemistry of metal ion receptors. Science 300, 931–936.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polleux, F., Morrow, T., and Ghosh, A. (2000). Semaphorin 3A is a chemoattractant for cortical apical dendrites. Nature 404, 567–573.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cuevas, C. A., Notario, A., Adame, J. A., Hilboll, A., Richter, A., Burrows, J. P., et al. (2014). Evolution of NO₂ levels in Spain from 1996 to 2012. Sci. Rep. 4, 5887.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2010). Guidelines for Acquisition Evaluation and Post Merger Integration. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yang, L. (2014). On-Orbit Operations Optimization: Modeling and Algorithms., eds. Y. Zhu, X. Ren, and Y. Zhang. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bharadwaj, U., Kasembeli, M. M., and Tweardy, D. J. (2016). “STAT3 Inhibitors in Cancer: A Comprehensive Update,” in STAT Inhibitors in Cancer, ed. A. C. Ward (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 95–161.

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 Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016). Nutrition May Be As Big A Challenge Today As HIV/AIDS Was 15 Years Ago. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nutrition-may-be-as-big-a-challenge-today-as-hivaids-was-15-years-ago/ (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 (1990). Social Security: Service to the Public--Accuracy of the 800 Phone Service. 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

Sanchez, M. (2012). For imagination and love – The permanence of the Mexican father who fathers at a distance. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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., and Saad, H. (2017). Dozens Killed As Blast Hits Bus Convoy In Syria. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Nadis, 2000; Finney and O’Halloran, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Finney and O’Halloran, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Cuevas et al., 2014)

About the journal

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