How to format your references using the Frontiers in Systems and Translational Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Systems and Translational Endocrinology. 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

Gershon, D. (2000). Partners resolve their differences and unite at the second attempt. Nature 405, 258.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson, L., and Head, J. W., Iii (2007). An integrated model of kimberlite ascent and eruption. Nature 447, 53–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Izawa, Y., Pun, D., and Stahl, S. S. (2011). Palladium-catalyzed aerobic dehydrogenation of substituted cyclohexanones to phenols. Science 333, 209–213.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boyman, O., Kovar, M., Rubinstein, M. P., Surh, C. D., and Sprent, J. (2006). Selective stimulation of T cell subsets with antibody-cytokine immune complexes. Science 311, 1924–1927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rios Insua, D., Ruggeri, F., and Wiper, M. P. (2012). Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Process Models: Ruggeri/Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Process Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gondran, M. (2008). Graphs, Dioids and Semirings: New Models and Algorithms., ed. M. Minoux. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Cervantes, L., and Castillo, O. (2013). “Genetic Optimization of Membership Functions in Modular Fuzzy Controllers for Complex Problems,” in Recent Advances on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, eds. O. Castillo, P. Melin, and J. Kacprzyk (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 51–62.

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 Systems and Translational Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Epilepsy: Sorting The Myths From The Facts Of A Common Disorder. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/epilepsy-sorting-myths-facts-common-disorder/ (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 (2000). Space Station: Russian Compliance With Safety Requirements. 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

Reese, S. R. (2012). Transitioning to the oboe: Methods and resources to assist in switching to the oboe from other woodwind instruments. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006). An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times, 14LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2000; Wilson and Head, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wilson and Head, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Boyman et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Systems and Translational Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
Scope