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

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

Mooijaart, S. (2004). Scientists and societies. Young genomicists get connected. Nature 429, 226.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nakar, E., and Piran, T. (2011). Detectable radio flares following gravitational waves from mergers of binary neutron stars. Nature 478, 82–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mansouri, F. A., Buckley, M. J., and Tanaka, K. (2007). Mnemonic function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in conflict-induced behavioral adjustment. Science 318, 987–990.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Caudy, A. A., Ketting, R. F., Hammond, S. M., Denli, A. M., Bathoorn, A. M. P., Tops, B. B. J., et al. (2003). A micrococcal nuclease homologue in RNAi effector complexes. Nature 425, 411–414.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Godwin, W. (2013). International Construction Contracts. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Habu, J., Fawcett, C., and Matsunaga, J. M. eds. (2008). Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Simmons, K., and Carstarphen, S. (2012). “Installing and Upgrading,” in Pro SQL Server 2012 Administration, ed. S. Carstarphen (Berkeley, CA: Apress), 61–98.

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 Pituitary Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Number-Crunching Higgs Boson: Meet The World’s Largest Distributed Computer Grid. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/number-crunching-higgs-boson-meet-world-s-largest-distributed-computer-grid/ (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 (2005). Consolidation Loan Borrower Interest Rates. 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

Santella Steen, S. (2017). The Potential of Television Programming as a Resource to Facilitate Academic Progress for Students who have a Specific Learning Disability in Reading. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Kelly, R. (1995). Castaway. New York Times, 77.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mooijaart, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mooijaart, 2004; Nakar and Piran, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nakar and Piran, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Caudy et al., 2003)

About the journal

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