How to format your references using the Frontiers in Hematology Oncology citation style

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

Gould, P. (2002). Portraits of science. Two good women, or too good to be true? Science 296, 1805–1806.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kang, T. M., and Hilgemann, D. W. (2004). Multiple transport modes of the cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. Nature 427, 544–548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grenier, I. A., Casandjian, J.-M., and Terrier, R. (2005). Unveiling extensive clouds of dark gas in the solar neighborhood. Science 307, 1292–1295.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Daniel, C., Full, J., González, L., Lupulescu, C., Manz, J., Merli, A., et al. (2003). Deciphering the reaction dynamics underlying optimal control laser fields. Science 299, 536–539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, R. H., and Rodrick, G. E. (2005). Food Safety Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McCluggage, W. G. (2014). Cellular Pathology of Glandular Lesions and Uncommon Neoplasms of the Cervix., eds. J. Tidy and J. H. F. Smith. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Greenwood, M. J. (2014). “Migration and Labor Market Opportunities,” in Handbook of Regional Science, eds. M. M. Fischer and P. Nijkamp (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 3–16.

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 Hematology Oncology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Pufferfishes Aren’t Holding Their Breath When They’re Inflated. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pufferfishes-arent-holding-their-breath-when-theyre-inflated/ (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 (2008). Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges Facing the Agency in Fiscal Year 2009 and Beyond. 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

DeMoss, M. D. (2010). Mapping the issues: A content analysis of elementary and secondary education news stories from 1968 to 2008 on television networks. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Barron, J. (2017). Celebrating a Honey Harvest in the Center of Hudson Yards. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gould, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gould, 2002; Kang and Hilgemann, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kang and Hilgemann, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Daniel et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Hematology Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology