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Frontiers medical journals Citation Generator
Generate references in Frontiers medical journals from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.
What a Frontiers medical journals reference looks like
Frontiers medical journals is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.
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Journal article
1. Babonis LS, Martindale MQ. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS (2022) 119:e2113701119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Book
1. Kuhn TS. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press. (1970).
Web page
1. IPCC. Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. (2021) https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ [Accessed July 15, 2026]
Journal article with 26 authors
1. Harris CR, Millman KJ, van der Walt SJ, Gommers R, Virtanen P, Cournapeau D, Wieser E, Taylor J, Berg S, Smith NJ, et al. Array programming with NumPy. Nature (2020) 585:357–362. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
Frontiers medical journals at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in medicine.
- In the text, the first source is cited as (1).
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 10 authors and shortens the rest.
- First names are shortened to initials.
- DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
- The style file was last updated in April 2024.
The guide this style follows: frontiersin.org
How Frontiers medical journals compares with NLM/Vancouver: Citing Medicine 2nd edition (citation-sequence, brackets)
Where Frontiers medical journals differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 10 authors and shortens the rest.
The same journal article in NLM/Vancouver: Citing Medicine 2nd edition (citation-sequence, brackets)
1. Babonis LS, Martindale MQ. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS. 2022 May 3;119(19):e2113701119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does Frontiers medical journals list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 10 authors and shortens the rest.
How does Frontiers medical journals handle DOIs and web pages?
DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix. Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in Frontiers medical journals?
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
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