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

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

Parham, P. (2004). Immunology. NK cells lose their inhibition. Science 305, 786–787.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeomans, D. K., and Veverka, J. (2004). Obituary: Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906-2004). Nature 432, 31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Losonczy, A., Makara, J. K., and Magee, J. C. (2008). Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity and input feature storage in neurons. Nature 452, 436–441.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kuo, A., Gulbis, J. M., Antcliff, J. F., Rahman, T., Lowe, E. D., Zimmer, J., et al. (2003). Crystal structure of the potassium channel KirBac1.1 in the closed state. Science 300, 1922–1926.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Reedy, M. A. (2016). Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Seed, M. P., and Walsh, D. A. eds. (2008). Angiogenesis in Inflammation: Mechanisms and Clinical Correlates. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Baran, E. T., and Reis, R. L. (2006). “Biomimetic Approach to Drug Delivery and Optimization of Nanocarrier Systems,” in Nanocarrier Technologies: Frontiers of Nanotherapy, ed. M. R. Mozafari (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 75–86.

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 Behavioral Neuroscience.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016). These Fisherman Found Something Very Unexpected Lurking In A Cod’s Mouth. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-fisherman-found-something-very-unexpected-lurking-cod-s-mouth/ [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 (2002). Desktop Outsourcing: Positive Results Reported, but Analyses Could Be Strengthened. 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

Orozco, M. (2015). Music preference and its effects on emotion processes and identity development in young adult females: An examination of the “emo” subculture.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007). Uncertainty Now in a Golden Youth’s Trajectory. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parham, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Parham, 2004; Yeomans and Veverka, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Yeomans and Veverka, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kuo et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Behav. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5153
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology