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

Rodbell, D. T. (2012). Climate change. Marching in near lock-step. Science 335, 548–549.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schultz, D. M., and Yoon, T. P. (2014). Solar synthesis: prospects in visible light photocatalysis. Science 343, 1239176.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nesić, D., Hsu, Y., and Stebbins, C. E. (2004). Assembly and function of a bacterial genotoxin. Nature 429, 429–433.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Molnár, A., Schwach, F., Studholme, D. J., Thuenemann, E. C., and Baulcombe, D. C. (2007). miRNAs control gene expression in the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Nature 447, 1126–1129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee, Y. S. (2011). Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Catalano, C. (2012). L’angio-TC dell’aorta. , eds. A. Napoli and B. C. Marincola Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bari, A. T. M. G., Reaz, M. R., Choi, H.-J., and Jeong, B.-S. (2013). “DNA Encoding for Splice Site Prediction in Large DNA Sequence,” in Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 18th International Conference, DASFAA 2013, International Workshops: BDMA, SNSM, SeCoP, Wuhan, China, April 22-25, 2013. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. B. Hong, X. Meng, L. Chen, W. Winiwarter, and W. Song (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 46–58.

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

Fang, J. (2015). Mussel-Inspired Glue Adheres To Slippery Surfaces Submerged In Saltwater. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mussel-inspired-glue-sticks-slippery-surfaces-submerged-saltwater/ [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 (2010). Social Security Administration: Cases of Federal Employees and Transportation Drivers and Owners Who Fraudulently and/or Improperly Received SSA Benefits. 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

Anderson, C. W. (2009). Breaking journalism down: Work, authority, and networking local news, 1997–2009.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2007). Purge Victims Remembered In Moscow Rite. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rodbell, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Rodbell, 2012; Schultz and Yoon, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Schultz and Yoon, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Molnár et al., 2007)

About the journal

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

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