How to format your references using the Frontiers in Pharmacology of Ion Channels and Channelopathies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Pharmacology of Ion Channels and Channelopathies. 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

Fuhrman, J. A. (2009). Microbial community structure and its functional implications. Nature 459, 193–199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baughn, A. D., and Malamy, M. H. (2004). The strict anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis grows in and benefits from nanomolar concentrations of oxygen. Nature 427, 441–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li de la Sierra-Gallay, I., Pellegrini, O., and Condon, C. (2005). Structural basis for substrate binding, cleavage and allostery in the tRNA maturase RNase Z. Nature 433, 657–661.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wunderlich, T., Akgenc, B., Eckern, U., Schuster, C., and Schwingenschlögl, U. (2013). Modified Li chains as atomic switches. Sci. Rep. 3, 2605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa, F., Gautier, C., Labouré, E., and Revol, B. (2013). Electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Electronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Christianson, B., Crispo, B., Malcolm, J., and Stajano, F. eds. (2011). Security Protocols XIX: 19th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 28-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Antoniou, G., and Harmelen, F. van (2009). “Web Ontology Language: OWL,” in Handbook on Ontologies, eds. S. Staab and R. Studer (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 91–110.

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 Ion Channels and Channelopathies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Manure From Antibiotic-Free Cows Still Contributing To Resistance. 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 (1988). Toward Equality: Education of the Deaf. 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

Horwitz, M. H. (2017). Morphodynamics and Sediment Transport Pathways of the John’s Pass-Blind Pass Dual Inlet System: Pinellas County, Florida. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Palmer, E., and Otis, J. (2017). Tradition of Helping Neediest Cases Inspires Readers to Give Back. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuhrman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Baughn and Malamy, 2004; Fuhrman, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Baughn and Malamy, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wunderlich et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Pharmacology of Ion Channels and Channelopathies
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology