How to format your references using the Frontiers in Molecular and Cellular Oncology citation style

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

Elliott, T. (2002). Geophysics. Caught offside. Science 295, 55–57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soutoglou, E., and Talianidis, I. (2002). Coordination of PIC assembly and chromatin remodeling during differentiation-induced gene activation. Science 295, 1901–1904.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schröter, C., Kosma, K., and Schultz, T. (2011). CRASY: mass- or electron-correlated rotational alignment spectroscopy. Science 333, 1011–1015.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee, G.-H., Kwon, S. J., Park, K.-S., Kang, J.-G., Park, J.-G., Lee, S., et al. (2014). Germanium microflower-on-nanostem as a high-performance lithium ion battery electrode. Sci. Rep. 4, 6883.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eales, L.-J. (2005). Immunology for Life Scientists. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Huckleberry, A., Penkov, I., and Zuckerman, G. eds. (2013). Lie Groups: Structure, Actions, and Representations: In Honor of Joseph A. Wolf on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheloukhine, S., and Haberfeld, M. R. (2011). “Organized Crime, Businesses, and Local Bureaucracy,” in Russian Organized Corruption Networks and their International Trajectories, ed. M. R. Haberfeld (New York, NY: Springer), 85–117.

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 Molecular and Cellular Oncology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015). Check Out These Pumpkins Exploding, Spewing Molten Iron And Levitating. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/check-out-these-pumpkins-exploding-spewing-molten-iron-and-levitating/ (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). Joint Strike Fighter: Strong Risk Management Essential as Program Enters Most Challenging Phase. 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

Williams, E. C. (2012). Smart Packaging: A Novel Technique For Localized Drug Delivery For Ovarian Cancer. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Chira, S. (2017). Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s. New York Times, SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elliott, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Elliott, 2002; Soutoglou and Talianidis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Soutoglou and Talianidis, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2014)

About the journal

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