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

Bauer, G. E. W. (2004). Applied physics. Mesmerizing semiconductors. Science 306, 1898–1899.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gunn, P. P., and Joiner, S. D. (2009). Certificates should be strengthened. Science 323, 1289–90; author reply 1298-90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hibbett, D. S., Gilbert, L. B., and Donoghue, M. J. (2000). Evolutionary instability of ectomycorrhizal symbioses in basidiomycetes. Nature 407, 506–508.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schön, J. H., Dorget, M., Beuran, F. C., Zu, X. Z., Arushanov, E., Deville Cavellin, C., et al. (2001). Superconductivity in CaCuO2 as a result of field-effect doping. Nature 414, 434–436.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor, K., Aardema, F., and Pélissier, M.-C. (2006). Beyond Reasonable Doubt. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Matucci-Cerinic, M., Furst, D., and Fiorentino, D. eds. (2014). Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gemulla, R., Rösch, P., and Lehner, W. (2008). “Linked Bernoulli Synopses: Sampling along Foreign Keys,” in Scientific and Statistical Database Management: 20th International Conference, SSDBM 2008, Hong Kong, China, July 9-11, 2008 Proceedings, eds. B. Ludäscher and N. Mamoulis (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 6–23.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016). Space Declared LGBT-Friendly After Pride Flag Launch Stunt. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-declared-lgbt-friendly-after-pride-flag-launch-stunt/ (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 (2014). Airport Funding: Aviation Industry Changes Affect Airport Development Costs and Financing. 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

Kargbo, A. H. (2019). An Approach to Dynamic Resource Allocation for Electric Power Disaster Response Management. 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

Crow, K. (2002). Maître D’ Says “Buona Sera,” but Back Home, It’s “Buenos Días.” New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bauer, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bauer, 2004; Gunn and Joiner, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gunn and Joiner, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Schön et al., 2001)

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