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

Seeberger, P. H. (2005). Exploring life’s sweet spot. Nature 437, 1239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kalaany, N. Y., and Sabatini, D. M. (2009). Tumours with PI3K activation are resistant to dietary restriction. Nature 458, 725–731.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sekiguchi, Y., Arai, K., and Kohshima, S. (2006). Sleep behaviour: sleep in continuously active dolphins. Nature 441, E9-10; discussion E11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang, Y., Huang, Y., Wang, J., Cheng, C., Huang, W., Lu, P., et al. (2009). Structure of the formate transporter FocA reveals a pentameric aquaporin-like channel. Nature 462, 467–472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Angueira, P., and Romo, J. A. (2012). Microwave Line of Sight Link Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yu, P. S., Han, J., and Faloutsos, C. eds. (2010). Link Mining: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Di Mauro, C., and Nordvik, J. P. (2010). “Decision Support System for Crisis Management Planning,” in Dangerous Materials: Control, Risk Prevention and Crisis Management: From New Global Threats to New Global Responses: A Picture of Transition, ed. A. Brugnoli (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 57–69.

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

Andrew, D. (2015). What Does a Nuclear Explosion in Space Look Like? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-does-nuclear-explosion-space-look/ (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). GAO Lead Division Plan for Automatic Data Processing. 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

Choi, K. K. (2010). Conspiracy and alternative crimes in the Military Commissions Act of 2009: Is There a Way Out? 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

Higgins, A. (2016). In Measured Speech, Putin Calls for ‘Mutually Beneficial’ Ties With U.S. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seeberger, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Seeberger, 2005; Kalaany and Sabatini, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kalaany and Sabatini, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2009)

About the journal

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