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

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

Dickey, B. F. (2012). Biochemistry. Walking on solid ground. Science 337, 924–925.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tilman, D., and Isbell, F. (2015). Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines. Nature 528, 336–337.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saavedra, S., Reed-Tsochas, F., and Uzzi, B. (2009). A simple model of bipartite cooperation for ecological and organizational networks. Nature 457, 463–466.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Greenwood, R. C., Franchi, I. A., Jambon, A., and Buchanan, P. C. (2005). Widespread magma oceans on asteroidal bodies in the early Solar System. Nature 435, 916–918.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nicu, L., and Leïchlé, T. (2013). Micro- and Nanoelectromechanical Biosensors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bachrach, D. G. (2016). More Than a Showroom: Strategies for Winning Back Online Shoppers., eds. J. Ogilvie, A. Rapp, and J. Calamusa. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Young, C. (2014). “The Need for a Management Plan and the 1st and 2nd Plans,” in Managing, Using, and Interpreting Hadrian’s Wall as World Heritage, eds. P. G. Stone and D. Brough (New York, NY: Springer), 21–32.

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 Vascular Physiology.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). Zombie Genes That Wake Up After You Die Could Help To Predict Time Of Death. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zombie-genes-that-wake-up-after-you-die-could-help-to-predict-time-of-death/ (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 (2014). Oil and Gas Transportation: Department of Transportation Is Taking Actions to Address Rail Safety, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Pipeline Safety. 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

Luscinski, A. (2017). Best Practices in Adult Online Learning. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Film Series. New York Times, C24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickey, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dickey, 2012; Tilman and Isbell, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tilman and Isbell, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Greenwood et al., 2005)

About the journal

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