How to format your references using the Frontiers in Striated Muscle Physiology citation style

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

Sherratt, D. J. (2003). Bacterial chromosome dynamics. Science 301, 780–785.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abrams, N. E., and Primack, J. R. (2001). Essays on science and society. Cosmology and 21st-century culture. Science 293, 1769–1770.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sauer, U., Heinemann, M., and Zamboni, N. (2007). Genetics. Getting closer to the whole picture. Science 316, 550–551.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Coronado, E., Galán-Mascarós, J. R., Gómez-García, C. J., and Laukhin, V. (2000). Coexistence of ferromagnetism and metallic conductivity in a molecule-based layered compound. Nature 408, 447–449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone, R., and Gutiérrez-Albilla, J. D. (2013). A Companion to Luis Buñuel. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Mey, D. an, Alexander, M., Bientinesi, P., Cannataro, M., Clauss, C., Costan, A., et al. eds. (2014). Euro-Par 2013: Parallel Processing Workshops: BigDataCloud, DIHC, FedICI, HeteroPar, HiBB, LSDVE, MHPC, OMHI, PADABS, PROPER, Resilience, ROME, and UCHPC 2013, Aachen, Germany, August 26-27, 2013. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wikarek, J., and Sitek, P. (2016). “A Multi-level and Multi-agent Approach to Modeling and Solving Supply Chain Problems,” in Highlights of Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection: International Workshops of PAAMS 2016, Sevilla, Spain, June 1-3, 2016. Proceedings, eds. J. Bajo, M. J. Escalona, S. Giroux, P. Hoffa-Dąbrowska, V. Julián, P. Novais, et al. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 49–60.

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 Striated Muscle Physiology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014). Offshore Wind Farms Guard Landscape Against Hurricanes. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/offshore-wind-farms-guard-landscape-against-hurricanes/ (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). Transportation Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1998-2000--1999 Update. 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

Leak, S. C. (2010). Building community capacity to meet the needs of our aging society: Interdisciplinary competency development for professionals. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2005). Supreme Court to Determine Fate of Business Tax Credits. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sherratt, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abrams and Primack, 2001; Sherratt, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Abrams and Primack, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Coronado et al., 2000)

About the journal

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