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

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

Luo, J.-J. (2011). Climate science: ocean dynamics not required? Nature 477, 544–546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, J., and Feringa, B. L. (2011). Dynamic control of chiral space in a catalytic asymmetric reaction using a molecular motor. Science 331, 1429–1432.

A journal article with 3 authors

Melchor, R. N., De Valais, S., and Genise, J. F. (2002). Bird-like fossil footprints from the Late Triassic. Nature 417, 936–938.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boes, M., Cerny, J., Massol, R., Op den Brouw, M., Kirchhausen, T., Chen, J., et al. (2002). T-cell engagement of dendritic cells rapidly rearranges MHC class II transport. Nature 418, 983–988.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Staebler, P. (2017). Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Frankel, W. L. (2011). Frozen Section Library: Pancreas., 1st Edn, ed. D. M. Proca. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Savoia, C., and Schiffrin, E. L. (2015). “Vascular Changes in the Microcirculation: Arterial Remodeling and Capillary Rarefaction,” in Arterial Disorders: Definition, Clinical Manifestations, Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches, eds. A. Berbari and G. Mancia (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 69–79.

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 Ethnopharmacology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017). The Great Barrier Reef Suffered Far Worse Bleaching Than Originally Thought. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-great-barrier-reef-suffered-far-worse-bleaching-than-originally-thought/ (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 (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Continuing Risks of Disruption to Social Security, Medicare, and Treasury Programs. 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

Spisak, G. M. (2012). Particulation. 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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006). A Symbol of Carefree, Innocent Fun? Not in Oyster Bay. New York Times, 14LI10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Luo, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Luo, 2011; Wang and Feringa, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Feringa, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Boes et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Ethnopharmacology
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology