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

Reedijk, J. (2005). Chemistry. Dioxygen surprises. Science 308, 1876–1877.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seitz, A. R., and Watanabe, T. (2003). Psychophysics: Is subliminal learning really passive? Nature 422, 36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lill, J. T., Marquis, R. J., and Ricklefs, R. E. (2002). Host plants influence parasitism of forest caterpillars. Nature 417, 170–173.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brinster, S., Lamberet, G., Staels, B., Trieu-Cuot, P., Gruss, A., and Poyart, C. (2009). Type II fatty acid synthesis is not a suitable antibiotic target for Gram-positive pathogens. Nature 458, 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Idelberger, K. (2011). The World of Footbridges. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Stitik, T. P. ed. (2011). Injection Procedures: Osteoarthritis and Related Conditions. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Djouadi, A. (2014). “Implications of the Higgs discovery for the MSSM,” in Supersymmetry After the Higgs Discovery, eds. I. Antoniadis and D. Ghilencea (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 71–97.

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

Fang, J. (2015). World’s Last Wild Horses Have Been Sequenced. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-last-wild-horses-have-been-sequenced/ (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 (1976). Uses of Minicomputers in the Federal Government: Trends, Benefits, and Problems. 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

Davis, L. V. (2017). Oxidation Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Iron Phthalocyanine Thin Films. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, C. (2007). Making College a Reality For Hispanic Students. New York Times, 14WE6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reedijk, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Seitz and Watanabe, 2003; Reedijk, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Seitz and Watanabe, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Brinster et al., 2009)

About the journal

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