How to format your references using the Frontiers in Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs. 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

Marshall, E. (2000). A sinister plot or victim of politics? Science 289, 571.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rauschenberger, R., and Yantis, S. (2001). Masking unveils pre-amodal completion representation in visual search. Nature 410, 369–372.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herrmann, B., Thöni, C., and Gächter, S. (2008). Antisocial punishment across societies. Science 319, 1362–1367.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Smit, R., Bouwens, R. J., Carniani, S., Oesch, P. A., Labbé, I., Illingworth, G. D., et al. (2018). Rotation in [C ii]-emitting gas in two galaxies at a redshift of 6.8. Nature 553, 178–181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mead, D. E. (2013). Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Anjum, N. A., Ahmad, I., Pereira, M. E., Duarte, A. C., Umar, S., and Khan, N. A. eds. (2012). The Plant Family Brassicaceae: Contribution Towards Phytoremediation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Plaza, A., Plaza, J., and Valencia, D. (2006). “AMEEPAR: Parallel Morphological Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image Classification on Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations,” in Computational Science – ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference, Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006. Proceedings, Part III, eds. V. N. Alexandrov, G. D. van Albada, P. M. A. Sloot, and J. Dongarra (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 24–31.

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 Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Were Wolves Dependent On Humans Long Before They Became Man’s Best Friend? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/were-wolves-dependent-humans-long-they-became-man-s-best-friend/ (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 (2017). Data Center Optimization: Agencies Need to Complete Plans to Address Inconsistencies in Reported Savings. 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

Annan, F. (2012). Spatial pattern of yield distributions: implications for crop insurance. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Beach Rats. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marshall, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Marshall, 2000; Rauschenberger and Yantis, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Rauschenberger and Yantis, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Smit et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology