How to format your references using the Frontiers in Respiratory Pharmacology citation style

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

Mackay, A. L. (2001). Character-building. Nature 410, 19.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pucadyil, T. J., and Schmid, S. L. (2009). Conserved functions of membrane active GTPases in coated vesicle formation. Science 325, 1217–1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Armstrong, A. A., Mohideen, F., and Lima, C. D. (2012). Recognition of SUMO-modified PCNA requires tandem receptor motifs in Srs2. Nature 483, 59–63.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li, W., Kuai, L., Chen, L., and Geng, B. (2013). “Re-growth etching” to large-sized porous gold nanostructures. Sci. Rep. 3, 2377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Salles, M. (2015). Decision-Making and the Information System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bezandry, P. H. (2011). Almost Periodic Stochastic Processes., ed. T. Diagana. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schellekens, J., and van Poppel, F. (2006). “Religious differentials in marital fertility in The Hague (Netherlands), 1860–1909,” in Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World, eds. R. Derosas and F. van Poppel (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 59–81.

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 Respiratory Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). MDMA Investigated as Treatment for Social Anxiety in Autistic Adults. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mdma-investigated-treatment-social-anxiety-autistic-adults/ (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 (1998). Rural Utilities Service: Opportunities to Operate Electricity and Telecommunications Loan Programs More Effectively. 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

Culumber, J. J. (2017). Physician Practice Survival: The Role of Analytics in Shaping the Future. 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

Wagner, J. (2017). As Reed Departs the Mets, Prospects Are on Their Way. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mackay, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Mackay, 2001; Pucadyil and Schmid, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pucadyil and Schmid, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2013)

About the journal

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