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

Dalton, R. (2000). Los Alamos labs are safe from fire. Nature 405, 264.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burt, D., and Pourquie, O. (2003). Genetics. Chicken genome--science nuggets to come soon. Science 300, 1669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grevemeyer, I., Herber, R., and Essen, H. H. (2000). Microseismological evidence for a changing wave climate in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. Nature 408, 349–352.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Harris, K. D., Henze, D. A., Hirase, H., Leinekugel, X., Dragoi, G., Czurkó, A., et al. (2002). Spike train dynamics predicts theta-related phase precession in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Nature 417, 738–741.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garduno Barrera, D., and Diaz, M. (2011). Communicating Systems with UML 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Börger, E., Butler, M., Bowen, J. P., and Boca, P. eds. (2008). Abstract State Machines, B and Z: First International Conference, ABZ 2008, London, UK, September 16-18, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chou, C.-P. (2013). “The Greatest Event in Life, A Farce in One Act,” in English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society (Volume 1) China Academic Library., ed. C.-P. Chou (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 33–39.

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

Luntz, S. (2016). 300-Year-Old Eclipse Wind Mystery Finally Explained. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/300yearold-eclipse-wind-mystery-finally-explained/ [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). FCC: Non-Voice, Non-Geostationary Mobile Satellite Service. 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

Risley, L. (2012). Exploring Congruency between John A. Henschke’s Practice and Scholarship.

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

Wagner, J. (2017). DeGrom Escapes Despite A Barrage of Home Runs. 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 (Dalton, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton, 2000; Burt and Pourquie, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Burt and Pourquie, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Harris et al., 2002)

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