How to format your references using the Frontiers in Pediatric Endocrinology citation style

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

Di Lorenzo, E. (2015). Climate science: The future of coastal ocean upwelling. Nature 518, 310–311.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bramwell, S. T., and Gingras, M. J. (2001). Spin ice state in frustrated magnetic pyrochlore materials. Science 294, 1495–1501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Birbeck, G. L., Meyer, A.-C., and Ogunniyi, A. (2015). Nervous system disorders across the life course in resource-limited settings. Nature 527, S167-71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Oprea, G. E., Kröber, S., McWhorter, M. L., Rossoll, W., Müller, S., Krawczak, M., et al. (2008). Plastin 3 is a protective modifier of autosomal recessive spinal muscular atrophy. Science 320, 524–527.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lau, V. K. N., and Ricky Kwok, Y.-K. (2006). Channel-Adaptive Technologies and Cross-Layer Designs for Wireless Systems with Multiple Antennas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Verster, J. C., Pandi-Perumal, S. R., and Streiner, D. L. eds. (2008). Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Issar, G., and Navon, L. R. (2016). “Decision Support Systems (DSS),” in Operational Excellence: A Concise Guide to Basic Concepts and Their Application, ed. L. R. Navon (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 17–20.

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 Pediatric Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). The Orionid Meteor Shower Is About To Peak – Here’s How To See It. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/orionid-meteor-shower-peak/ (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 (2001). Customs Service Modernization: Results of Review of First Automated Commercial Environment Expenditure Plan. 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

Dair, C. (2015). Development of a nutrition-related curriculum for sustainable food waste management for foodservice operations. 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

Pilon, M. (2014). Canada Dominant in Curling. New York Times, D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Di Lorenzo, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bramwell and Gingras, 2001; Di Lorenzo, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bramwell and Gingras, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Oprea et al., 2008)

About the journal

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