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

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

Harris A. What Spaceguard did. Nature (2008) 453:1178–1179.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown KM, Fialko Y. “Melt welt” mechanism of extreme weakening of gabbro at seismic slip rates. Nature (2012) 488:638–641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mills CE, Robins JM, Lipsitch M. Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza. Nature (2004) 432:904–906.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li Y, Ehrhardt K, Zhang MQ, Bleris L. Assembly and validation of versatile transcription activator-like effector libraries. Sci Rep (2014) 4:4857.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner D. A History of Modern Drama. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2016).

An edited book

Mandea M, Korte M eds. Geomagnetic Observations and Models. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. (2011). XVI, 344 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Nipkow T, Klein G. “Logic and Proof Beyond Equality.,” In: Klein G, editor. Concrete Semantics: With Isabelle/HOL. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2014). p. 37–52

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 Endocrinology.

Blog post

Davis J. Estrogen In Suburban Yards Might Be Turning Frogs Female. IFLScience (2015) https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/estrogen-suburban-yards-might-be-turning-frogs-female/ [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. Surface Transportation Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Manage Risk, Improve Coordination, and Measure Performance, but Additional Actions Would Enhance Its Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (2010).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Julian A. Guided Autobiography Themes for Older Adult United States War Veterans. [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach. (2017).

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

Sisario B. Jay-Z’s ‘4:44’ Takes An Easy Trip to No. 1. New York Times (2017)C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

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