How to format your references using the Frontiers in Inflammation Pharmacology citation style

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

Goldston, D. (2007). Misspent energy. Nature 447, 130.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zelzer, E., and Olsen, B. R. (2003). The genetic basis for skeletal diseases. Nature 423, 343–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lisiecki, L. E., Raymo, M. E., and Curry, W. B. (2008). Atlantic overturning responses to Late Pleistocene climate forcings. Nature 456, 85–88.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Drummond, S. P., Brown, G. G., Gillin, J. C., Stricker, J. L., Wong, E. C., and Buxton, R. B. (2000). Altered brain response to verbal learning following sleep deprivation. Nature 403, 655–657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larkin, R. F., and DiTommaso, M. (2015). Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2015. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Abrams, L. S., Hughes, E., Inderbitzin, M., and Meek, R. eds. (2016). The Voluntary Sector in Prisons: Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Siebel, N. T., Sommer, G., and Kassahun, Y. (2008). “Evolutionary Learning of Neural Structures for Visuo-Motor Control,” in Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics, eds. A. Kelemen, A. Abraham, and Y. Liang (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 93–115.

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 Inflammation Pharmacology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Mentally Complex Jobs Could Help Protect Against Certain Aspects Of Alzheimer’s. IFLScience.

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 (1981). Request for Comments on Proposed Amendment. 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

Crawford, M. J. (2009). Empire’s experts: The politics of knowledge in Spain’s royal monopoly of quina (1751–1808). La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Hodara, S. (2015). A Painter of Clouds, Revisited. New York Times, CT8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Zelzer and Olsen, 2003; Goldston, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Zelzer and Olsen, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Drummond et al., 2000)

About the journal

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