How to format your references using the Frontiers in Renal and Epithelial Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Renal and Epithelial Physiology. 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

Stewart, I., I. (2000). Mathematics. A gathering of groups. Nature 403, 719–720.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wade, J., and Wood, B. J. (2001). The Earth’s “missing” niobium may be in the core. Nature 409, 75–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clevers, H., Loh, K. M., and Nusse, R. (2014). Stem cell signaling. An integral program for tissue renewal and regeneration: Wnt signaling and stem cell control. Science 346, 1248012.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu, C. Y., Liu, X. J., Lu, J., Zheng, G. P., and Liu, C. T. (2013). First-principles prediction and experimental verification of glass-forming ability in Zr-Cu binary metallic glasses. Sci. Rep. 3, 2124.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marston, R. C. (2011). Portfolio Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

El-Salhy, M. (2015). Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel., eds. J. G. Hatlebakk and T. Hausken. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Behr, M. A. (2013). “Evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis,” in The New Paradigm of Immunity to Tuberculosis, ed. M. Divangahi (New York, NY: Springer), 81–91.

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 Renal and Epithelial Physiology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). Ancient Arctic DNA Suggests That Dogs And Wolves Split 40,000 Years Ago. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-arctic-dna-suggests-that-dogs-and-wolves-split-40000-years-ago/ (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 (2013). NextGen Air Transportation System: FAA Has Made Some Progress in Midterm Implementation, but Ongoing Challenges Limit Expected Benefits. 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

Gillan-Sanderson, N. A. (2012). A Study of the Effect of Additional Reading Assistance on Student Achievement. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Ember, S. (2017). The Empire Of Glamour Loses a King. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Stewart, 2000; Wade and Wood, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wade and Wood, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Renal and Epithelial Physiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)