How to format your references using the Frontiers in Mitochondrial Research citation style

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

Lynch, C. (2008). Big data: How do your data grow? Nature 455, 28–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, H., and Siegel, R. M. (2011). Medicine. Progranulin resolves inflammation. Science 332, 427–428.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behnia, K., Balicas, L., and Kopelevich, Y. (2007). Signatures of electron fractionalization in ultraquantum bismuth. Science 317, 1729–1731.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Medema, R. H., Kops, G. J., Bos, J. L., and Burgering, B. M. (2000). AFX-like Forkhead transcription factors mediate cell-cycle regulation by Ras and PKB through p27kip1. Nature 404, 782–787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welsh, A. H. (1996). Aspects of Statistical Inference: Welsh/Aspects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zini, A., and Agarwal, A. eds. (2011). Sperm Chromatin: Biological and Clinical Applications in Male Infertility and Assisted Reproduction. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rahmandoust, M., and Ayatollahi, M. R. (2016). “CNT/FRP Composites,” in Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Based Composites under Consideration of Defects, ed. M. R. Ayatollahi (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 177–217.

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 Mitochondrial Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013). Selective Killing Can Affect Elephants for Decades. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/selective-killing-can-affect-elephants-decades/ (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 (2009). High Speed Passenger Rail: Future Development Will Depend on Addressing Financial and Other Challenges and Establishing a Clear Federal Role. 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

Gleason, R. (2013). Nanosphere lithography applied to magnetic thin films. 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

Rothenberg, B. (2016). Tennis Star Is Stabbed in Invasion of Home. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lynch, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lynch, 2008; Wu and Siegel, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wu and Siegel, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Medema et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Mitochondrial Research
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)