How to format your references using the Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Ritvo, H. (2003). Essays on science and society. Fighting for Thirlmere--the roots of environmentalism. Science 300, 1510–1511.

A journal article with 2 authors

Honma, T., and Goto, K. (2001). Complexes of MADS-box proteins are sufficient to convert leaves into floral organs. Nature 409, 525–529.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mang, P. K., Larochelle, S., and Greven, M. (2003). Condensed-matter physics: spurious magnetism in high-T(c) superconductor. Nature 426, 139–40; discussion 140.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Croft, M. T., Lawrence, A. D., Raux-Deery, E., Warren, M. J., and Smith, A. G. (2005). Algae acquire vitamin B12 through a symbiotic relationship with bacteria. Nature 438, 90–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane, D. (2011). The Chief Information Officer’s Body of Knowledge. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Prouff, E., and Schaumont, P. eds. (2012). Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2012: 14th International Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, September 9-12, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Harper, B. W. J., van Holst, M., and Aldrich-Wright, J. (2011). “Platinum(II) Intercalating Complexes Based on 2,2′:6′,2″-Terpyridine,” in Metallointercalators: Synthesis and Techniques to Probe Their Interactions with Biomolecules, ed. J. Aldrich-Wright (Vienna: Springer), 101–128.

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 Aging Neuroscience.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Bird Feathers Appear Red or Blue in Completely Different Ways. IFLScience.

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 (1989). Reports Issued in July 1989. 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

Sevilla, A. D. (2014). The moderating influence of core self-evaluation, emotional intelligence and extraversion on career success.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010). Sheppard Was Always About The Word. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ritvo, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Honma and Goto, 2001; Ritvo, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Honma and Goto, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Croft et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Aging Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1663-4365
Scope	Ageing Cognitive Neuroscience