How to format your references using the Frontiers in Molecular and Structural Endocrinology citation style

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

Fairclough, S. (2014). Physiological data must remain confidential. Nature 505, 263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fazleabas, A. T., and Kim, J. J. (2003). Development. What makes an embryo stick? Science 299, 355–356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamamoto, T., Inui, T., and Tsuji, T. (2013). The odor of Osmanthus fragrans attenuates food intake. Sci. Rep. 3, 1518.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Crook, R., Prance, J., Thomas, K. J., Chorley, S. J., Farrer, I., Ritchie, D. A., et al. (2006). Conductance quantization at a half-integer plateau in a symmetric GaAs quantum wire. Science 312, 1359–1362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Briffaut, J.-P. (2015). E-Enabled Operations Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Barnes-Hoggett, P. (2006). Flash 8 Essentials., eds. S. Downs, G. Rhodes, C. Swann, M. Voerman, and T. Yard. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Finn, A., and Scheding, S. (2010). “UVS Technology Issues,” in Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles: A Compendium, ed. S. Scheding (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 55–103.

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 Structural Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Killer Frog Fungus Could Actually Help Amphibians Survive Disease. 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 (1995). International Broadcasting: Downsizing and Relocating Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 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

Mace, J. Y. (2014). Rupturing the “reality” of reality TV: Contemporary video artists examining the discursive effects of the reality TV phenomenon. 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

Crow, K. (2000). One Drugstore Too Many, One Grocery Too Few? New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fairclough, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Fazleabas and Kim, 2003; Fairclough, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Fazleabas and Kim, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Crook et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Molecular and Structural Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
Scope