How to format your references using the Frontiers in Diabetes citation style

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

Dushoff, J. (2004). Comment on “Metapopulation persistence with age-dependent disturbance or succession.” Science 304, 684; author reply 684.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kidd, D. C., and Castano, E. (2013). Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind. Science 342, 377–380.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clutton-Brock, T. H., Coulson, T., and Milner, J. M. (2004). Red deer stocks in the Highlands of Scotland. Nature 429, 261–262.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Larbalestier, D., Gurevich, A., Feldmann, D. M., and Polyanskii, A. (2001). High-Tc superconducting materials for electric power applications. Nature 414, 368–377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, N. P. (2010). Process Engineering for a Small Planet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Giannoccaro, I. ed. (2013). Behavioral Issues in Operations Management: New Trends in Design, Management, and Methodologies. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vassev, E., and Hinchey, M. (2014). “Summary and Future Work,” in Autonomy Requirements Engineering for Space Missions, ed. M. Hinchey (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 185–187.

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 Diabetes.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Has a Chupacabra Been Captured in Texas? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/has-chupacabra-been-captured-texas/ (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 (1977). Status of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. 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

Builes, A. J. (2015). Inferring Function: A Study of Three Prehistoric Structures in El Pital, Puerto López, Manabí, Ecuador. 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

Lee, L. (2000). Parties. Films. Free Food. That’s Entertainment! New York Times, 91.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dushoff, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Dushoff, 2004; Kidd and Castano, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kidd and Castano, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Larbalestier et al., 2001)

About the journal

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