How to format your references using the Frontiers in Oxidant Physiology citation style

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

Govindan, R. (2014). Cancer. Attack of the clones. Science 346, 169–170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mishra, S. K., and Hoon, M. A. (2013). The cells and circuitry for itch responses in mice. Science 340, 968–971.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, B., Baskin, R. J., and Kowalczykowski, S. C. (2013). DNA unwinding heterogeneity by RecBCD results from static molecules able to equilibrate. Nature 500, 482–485.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang, Y., Cao, H., Zhang, G., Bougouffa, S., Lee, O. O., Al-Suwailem, A., et al. (2013). Autotrophic microbe metagenomes and metabolic pathways differentiate adjacent Red Sea brine pools. Sci. Rep. 3, 1748.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Griskey, R. G. (2005). Transport Phenomena and Unit Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Prain, G., Lee-Smith, D., and Karanja, N. eds. (2010). African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wolfsberg, M., Van Hook, W. A., and Paneth, P. (2009). “Isotope Effects on Equilibrium Constants of Chemical Reactions; Transition State Theory of Isotope Effects,” in Isotope Effects: in the Chemical, Geological, and Bio Sciences, eds. W. A. Hook, P. Paneth, and L. P. N. Rebelo (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 77–137.

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 Oxidant Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017). Physicists Use Einstein’s ‘Spooky’ Entanglement To Invent Super-Sensitive Gravitational Wave Detector. 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 (1999). Aviation: Comparison of Airline “Customer Service Commitment” With Contracts of Carriage and Federal Law. 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

Eslava Rios, J. (2015). Automatic melanoma detection in dermatological images. 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

Quain, J. R. (2017). Your Car May Soon Be Able to Read Your Face. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Govindan, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Mishra and Hoon, 2013; Govindan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Mishra and Hoon, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

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