How to format your references using the Frontiers in Radiation Oncology citation style

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

Lack, H. W. (2001). Floral tributes. Nature 411, 137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hubbard, J., and Shaw, J. H. (2009). Uplift of the Longmen Shan and Tibetan plateau, and the 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) earthquake. Nature 458, 194–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, G., Zhuchenko, O., and Kuspa, A. (2007). Immune-like phagocyte activity in the social amoeba. Science 317, 678–681.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Segall, P., Desmarais, E. K., Shelly, D., Miklius, A., and Cervelli, P. (2006). Earthquakes triggered by silent slip events on Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii. Nature 442, 71–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jepsen, T. C. (2003). Distributed Storage Networks. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chen, S.-H., Wang, P. P., and Kuo, T.-W. eds. (2007). Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance: Volume II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pollet, B. G., Staffell, I., and Adamson, K.-A. (2016). “Structure of the Energy Sector in South Africa,” in The Energy Landscape in the Republic of South Africa, eds. I. Staffell and K.-A. Adamson (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 21–29.

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 Radiation Oncology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). Fast Radio Bursts Also Produce Huge Gamma-Ray Flares. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/fast-radio-bursts-also-produce-huge-gammaray-flares/ (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 (1993). Telecommunications: FCC’s Oversight Efforts to Control Cross-Subsidization. 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

Razzaghi, M. (2013). Quantum Tunneling in Hydride Transfer Reactions in Solution. 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

(nyt), S. K. (2005). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Foreign Interference Condemned. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lack, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lack, 2001; Hubbard and Shaw, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hubbard and Shaw, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Segall et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Radiation Oncology
Abbreviation	Front. Oncol.
ISSN (online)	2234-943X
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology