How to format your references using the Frontiers in Predictive Toxicity citation style

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

Cohen, M. R. (2012). Eppendorf winner. When attention wanders. Science 338, 58–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Binder, P.-M., and Pipes, R. M. (2014). Applied mathematics: how chaos forgets and remembers. Nature 510, 343–344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lyon, B. E., Chaine, A. S., and Winkler, D. W. (2008). Ecology. A matter of timing. Science 321, 1051–1052.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Long, J., Huang, X., Liao, Y., Hu, X., Hu, J., Lui, S., et al. (2014). Prediction of post-earthquake depressive and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal resting-state fMRI study. Sci. Rep. 4, 6423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, F. S. C., and Agustí-Cullell, J. (2005). Knowledge Coordination. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gaber, M. M., Cocea, M., Wiratunga, N., and Goker, A. eds. (2015). Advances in Social Media Analysis. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wiśniewski, T., and Korytkowski, P. (2011). “Identification of an Assessment Model for Evaluating Performance of a Manufacturing System Based on Experts Opinions,” in Semantic Methods for Knowledge Management and Communication, eds. R. Katarzyniak, T.-F. Chiu, C.-F. Hong, and N. T. Nguyen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 35–45.

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 Predictive Toxicity.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Earth Used To Have More Than Two Magnetic Poles. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-used-have-more-two-magnetic-poles/ (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 (1988). FAA Appropriation Issues. 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

Lama, N. (2017). Optimized Veterinary Thermographic Image Classification using Support Vector Machines and Noise Mitigation. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Crane, A. T., and Hay, G. (2010). All Is Sparkly For Tiffany. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cohen, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cohen, 2012; Binder and Pipes, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Binder and Pipes, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Long et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Predictive Toxicity
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology