How to format your references using the Frontiers in Dementia citation style

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

Bilham, R. (2006). Geophysics. Dangerous tectonics, fragile buildings, and tough decisions. Science 311, 1873–1875.

A journal article with 2 authors

DePaolo, D. J., and Manga, M. (2003). Geology. Deep origin of hotspots--the mantle plume model. Science 300, 920–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfingsten, J. S., Costantino, D. A., and Kieft, J. S. (2006). Structural basis for ribosome recruitment and manipulation by a viral IRES RNA. Science 314, 1450–1454.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tian, D., Wang, Q., Zhang, P., Araki, H., Yang, S., Kreitman, M., et al. (2008). Single-nucleotide mutation rate increases close to insertions/deletions in eukaryotes. Nature 455, 105–108.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau, D., Fatu, A., and Souchet, D. (2014). Thermo-Hydrodynamic Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Myers, W. L. (2012). Multivariate Methods of Representing Relations in R for Prioritization Purposes: Selective Scaling, Comparative Clustering, Collective Criteria and Sequenced Sets. , ed. G. P. Patil New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lai, Y.-C., and Tél, T. (2011). “Noise and Transient Chaos,” in Transient Chaos: Complex Dynamics on Finite Time Scales Applied Mathematical Sciences., ed. T. Tél (New York, NY: Springer), 107–143.

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 Dementia.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). Smell Receptors In Lungs Could Hold Key To Treating Asthma. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/smell-receptors-lungs-hold-key-treating-asthma/ [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 (2005). Commercial Aviation: Structural Costs Continue to Challenge Legacy Airlines’ Financial Performance. 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

Gilkes, D. M. (2008). Multiple modes of Mdmx regulation affect p53 activation.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2005). Arts, Briefly; Rostropovich Quits Moscow Opera. New York Times, E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bilham, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (DePaolo and Manga, 2003; Bilham, 2006).

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

Two authors: (DePaolo and Manga, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Tian et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Dementia
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology