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

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

Buesseler KO. Ecology. Fishing for answers off Fukushima. Science (2012) 338:480–482.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ghosez P, Triscone J-M. Materials physics: reactive walls. Nature (2014) 515:348–350.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moon-van der Staay SY, De Wachter R, Vaulot D. Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity. Nature (2001) 409:607–610.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kendirlik EM, Sirt S, Kalkan SB, Dietsche W, Wegscheider W, Ludwig S, Siddiki A. Anomalous resistance overshoot in the integer quantum Hall effect. Sci Rep (2013) 3:3133.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belsey C. A Future for Criticism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. (2011).

An edited book

Lozano MD, Gallud JA, Tesoriero R, Penichet VMR eds. Distributed User Interfaces: Usability and Collaboration. London: Springer. (2013). XIII, 163 p. 77 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Parker G. “Punctuated Anytime Learning for Autonomous Agent Control.,” In: El-Osery A, Prevost J, editors. Control and Systems Engineering: A Report on Four Decades of Contributions. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2015). p. 89–107

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 Pediatrics.

Blog post

Andrews R. Gigantic Shield To Be Placed Over Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor. IFLScience (2016) https://www.iflscience.com/environment/gigantic-shield-placed-over-chernobyl-nuclear-reactor/ [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. Information Technology: Federal Laws, Regulations, and Mandatory Standards to Securing Private Sector Information Technology Systems and Data in Critical Infrastructure Sectors. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (2008).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Binkley PM. Relationship of Graduate Student Involvement to Graduate Alumni Donor Behavior. [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University. (2012).

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

Murphy MJO. ‘Bond, James Bond,’ Through the Years. New York Times (2015)C37.

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 Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Front. Pediatr.
ISSN (online)	2296-2360
Scope