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

Mayer-Schönberger, V. (2009). Sociology. Can we reinvent the Internet? Science 325, 396–397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinbara, K., and Aida, T. (2006). Chemistry. From electron pump to proton channel. Science 313, 51–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wellman, C. H., Osterloff, P. L., and Mohiuddin, U. (2003). Fragments of the earliest land plants. Nature 425, 282–285.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ikebuchi, Y., Aoki, S., Honma, M., Hayashi, M., Sugamori, Y., Khan, M., et al. (2018). Coupling of bone resorption and formation by RANKL reverse signalling. Nature 561, 195–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolf, G. (2011). Tales of the Barbarians. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Baltan, S., Carmichael, S. T., Matute, C., Xi, G., and Zhang, J. H. eds. (2014). White Matter Injury in Stroke and CNS Disease. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Q., Zhang, C., and Zhang, S. (2008). “Model Checking in Security Protocol Analysis,” in Secure Transaction Protocol Analysis: Models and Applications, eds. C. Zhang and S. Zhang (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 107–129.

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. (2017). New York 2140: A Novelist’s Vision Of A Drowned City That Still Never Sleeps. 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 (1987). Rail Abandonments: Abandonment Activity and Shipper Views on Rail Service Loss. 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

Wilbur, L. J. (2017). Perceptions of Missouri Public School Early Childhood Teachers and Administrators in Regard to Technology and Current Practices. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Kelly, M. (1993). First Lady and Top Official Visit, Both Named Hillary Clinton. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mayer-Schönberger, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kinbara and Aida, 2006; Mayer-Schönberger, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kinbara and Aida, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ikebuchi et al., 2018)

About the journal

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