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

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

Laursen, L. (2014). A preventable cancer. Nature 516, S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Takano, Y., and Ukezono, M. (2014). An experimental task to examine the mirror system in rats. Sci. Rep. 4, 6652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laliberté, E., Zemunik, G., and Turner, B. L. (2014). Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients. Science 345, 1602–1605.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou, Z., Licklider, L. J., Gygi, S. P., and Reed, R. (2002). Comprehensive proteomic analysis of the human spliceosome. Nature 419, 182–185.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grigorenko, Y. N., Chilingar, G. V., Sobolev, V. S., Andiyeva, T. A., and Zhukova, L. I. (2012). Petroleum Accumulation Zones on Continental Margins. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Long, M. ed. (2013). World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering May 26-31, 2012, Beijing, China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aucher, G. (2014). “Principles of Knowledge, Belief and Conditional Belief,” in Interdisciplinary Works in Logic, Epistemology, Psychology and Linguistics: Dialogue, Rationality, and Formalism, eds. M. Rebuschi, M. Batt, G. Heinzmann, F. Lihoreau, M. Musiol, and A. Trognon (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 97–134.

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 Cellular Neuroscience.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015). Nike Will Release Self-Lacing “Back To The Future” Shoes For 2016. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nike-will-release-self-lacing-back-future-trainers-2016/ (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 (1997). Surface Transportation: States Are Experimenting With Design-Build Contracting. 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

Frey, E. F. (2008). Technology diffusion and environmental regulation: Evidence from electric power plants under the Clean Air Act. 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

Rothenberg, B. (2017). Muguruza Cruises Through a Duel of Roland Garros Champions. 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 (Laursen, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Laursen, 2014; Takano and Ukezono, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Takano and Ukezono, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Cell. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5102
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience