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

Dissanayake, C. (2005). Global Voices of Science. Of stones and health: medical geology in Sri Lanka. Science 309, 883–885.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen, J., and Dahmann, C. (2005). Extrusion of cells with inappropriate Dpp signaling from Drosophila wing disc epithelia. Science 307, 1789–1790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Srisonphan, S., Kim, M., and Kim, H. K. (2014). Space charge neutralization by electron-transparent suspended graphene. Sci. Rep. 4, 3764.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xie, X., Lu, J., Kulbokas, E. J., Golub, T. R., Mootha, V., Lindblad-Toh, K., et al. (2005). Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in human promoters and 3’ UTRs by comparison of several mammals. Nature 434, 338–345.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohan, N. (2014). Advanced Electric Drives. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Deer, T. R., and Pope, J. E. eds. (2016). Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management., 2nd ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Seidl, C., Pogorelskiy, K., and Traub, S. (2013). “Uniform Measures,” in Tax Progression in OECD Countries: An Integrative Analysis of Tax Schedules and Income Distributions, eds. K. Pogorelskiy and S. Traub (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 27–68.

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

Hamilton, K. (2015). Meet The Three-Foot-Long Worms That Mate In Your Abdomen. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/three-foot-long-worms-mates-your-abdomen/ (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 (2012). Commercial Space Transportation: Industry Trends, Government Challenges, and International Competitiveness Issues. 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

Jackson, M. (2012). A Bibliometric Analysis of Green Building Literature. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Shinn, I. E. (1949). TIE-IN. New York Times, MagazineSM2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dissanayake, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Dissanayake, 2005; Shen and Dahmann, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Shen and Dahmann, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al., 2005)

About the journal

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