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

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

Lawler, A. (2000). ASTROBIOLOGY: Ames’s Proposal for Lab Triggers Battle at NASA. Science 289, 23a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berkman, P. A., and Young, O. R. (2009). Science and government. Governance and environmental change in the Arctic Ocean. Science 324, 339–340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, J., Goldman, A. S., and Hartwig, J. F. (2005). Oxidative addition of ammonia to form a stable monomeric amido hydride complex. Science 307, 1080–1082.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mocuta, C., Reichert, H., Mecke, K., Dosch, H., and Drakopoulos, M. (2005). Scaling in the time domain: universal dynamics of order fluctuations in Fe3Al. Science 308, 1287–1291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Papadimitriou, G. I., Tsimoulas, P. A., Obaidat, M. S., and Pomportsis, A. S. (2005). Multiwavelength Optical LANs. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dignum, F., Brom, C., Hindriks, K., Beer, M., and Richards, D. eds. (2013). Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments: First International Workshop, CAVE 2012, Held at AAMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fraenkel, A. A. (2016). “As a Professor in Marburg and Kiel (1919–1929),” in Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany, ed. J. Cohen-Mansfield (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 115–163.

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 Computational Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Watch An Enormous Jet Of Gas Erupt From A Massive Black Hole. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/galactic-puff-breaks-speed-light/ (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 (1998). Family Planning: Federal Funds Provided to Planned Parenthood Organizations. 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

De Felice, D. (2013). A Phenomenological Study of Teaching Endangered Languages Online: Perspectives from Nahua and Mayan Educators. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Lee, L. (2014). Modernist Birds Can Roost Here. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler, 2000; Berkman and Young, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Berkman and Young, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Mocuta et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Comput. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5188
Scope	Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience