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

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

Ellis W. At the zoo. Nature (2000) 408:295.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicholson DW, Thornberry NA. Apoptosis. Life and death decisions. Science (2003) 299:214–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagao K, Adachi Y, Yanagida M. Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair. Nature (2004) 430:1044–1048.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tang Y, Shi J, Li S, Wang L, Cayre YE, Chen Y. Microfluidic device with integrated microfilter of conical-shaped holes for high efficiency and high purity capture of circulating tumor cells. Sci Rep (2014) 4:6052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tatham M, Morton K. Developments in Speech Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2006).

An edited book

Mao E, Xu L, Tian W eds. Emerging Computation and Information teChnologies for Education: Proceeding of 2012 International Conference on Emerging Computation and Information teChnologies for Education (ECICE 2012). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. (2012). XXII, 790 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebbinghaus H-D. “Freiburg 1921–1953.,” In: Peckhaus V, editor. Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life and Work. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2015). p. 147–272

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 Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Plasmonics: Revolutionizing Light-Based Technologies Via Electron Oscillations In Metals. IFLScience (2015) https://www.iflscience.com/physics/plasmonics-revolutionizing-light-based-technologies-electron-oscillations-metals/ [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. NSF Experiment in Research Grant Administration Promising. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (1982).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez Abadia JM. French for Spanish speakers: A contrastive study of English monolingual, bilingual, and plurilingual adult learners of French. [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach. (2014).

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

Pilon M. Decision Is Annulled, Exonerating Officials. New York Times (2014)B12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

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