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

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

Smaglik, P. (2005). A question of age. Nature 434, 1159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martienssen, R. A., and Colot, V. (2001). DNA methylation and epigenetic inheritance in plants and filamentous fungi. Science 293, 1070–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aravin, A. A., Hannon, G. J., and Brennecke, J. (2007). The Piwi-piRNA pathway provides an adaptive defense in the transposon arms race. Science 318, 761–764.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen, F., Hong, H., Shi, S., Goel, S., Valdovinos, H. F., Hernandez, R., et al. (2014). Engineering of hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles for remarkably enhanced tumor active targeting efficacy. Sci. Rep. 4, 5080.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou, C. (2015). Modeling the Effect of Damage in Composite Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Järvelä, M., and Juhola, S. eds. (2011). Energy, Policy, and the Environment: Modeling Sustainable Development for the North. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zeng, X., Chauhan, C., and Hou, S. X. (2013). “Stem Cells in the Drosophila Digestive System,” in Transcriptional and Translational Regulation of Stem Cells Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology., eds. G. Hime and H. Abud (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 63–78.

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 Decision Neuroscience.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017). Russia Might Ban Tobacco For Anyone Born After 2014. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/russia-might-ban-tobacco-for-anyone-born-after-2014/ [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 (2008). National Airspace System: DOT and FAA Actions Will Likely Have a Limited Effect on Reducing Delays during Summer 2008 Travel Season. 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

Spruill, E. L. (2008). A correlational analysis relating organizational climate to employee performance: A case study.

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

Gustines, G. G., and Kepler, A. W. (2011). So Far, Sales for New DC Comics Are Super. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Martienssen and Colot, 2001; Smaglik, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Martienssen and Colot, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-453X
Scope	General Neuroscience