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

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

Montanarella, L. (2015). Agricultural policy: Govern our soils. Nature 528, 32–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bianco, P. R., and Kowalczykowski, S. C. (2000). Translocation step size and mechanism of the RecBC DNA helicase. Nature 405, 368–372.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sword, G. A., Lorch, P. D., and Gwynne, D. T. (2005). Insect behaviour: migratory bands give crickets protection. Nature 433, 703.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Körding, E., Rupen, M., Knigge, C., Fender, R., Dhawan, V., Templeton, M., et al. (2008). A transient radio jet in an erupting dwarf nova. Science 320, 1318–1320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barquinha, P., Martins, R., Pereira, L., and Fortunato, E. (2012). Transparent Oxide Electronics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Liu, L., and Özsu, M. T. eds. (2009). Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Winter, H. (2007). “Kinetic Electron Emission for Grazing Scattering of Atoms and Ions from Surfaces,” in Slow Heavy-Particle Induced Electron Emission from Solid Surfaces, ed. J. Burgdörfer (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 113–151.

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 Autonomic Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016). Factories In Space: How Extra-Terrestrial Industry Could Keep Humans Alive. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/factories-in-space-how-extraterrestrial-industry-could-keep-humans-alive/ (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 (1995). Earth Observing System: Concentration on Near-Term EOSDIS Development May Jeopardize Long-Term Success. 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

Gelbart, O. (2008). Integrated hardware/software approaches to software security for embedded systems. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

St. John Kelly, E. (1993). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, 1317.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montanarella, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bianco and Kowalczykowski, 2000; Montanarella, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bianco and Kowalczykowski, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Körding et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology