How to format your references using the Frontiers in Endovascular and Interventional Neurology citation style

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

Baker, S. (2011). Genomic medicine has failed the poor. Nature 478, 287.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raviv, U., and Klein, J. (2002). Fluidity of bound hydration layers. Science 297, 1540–1543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chalancon, G., Kruse, K., and Babu, M. M. (2012). Cell biology. Reconfiguring regulation. Science 335, 1050–1051.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Genovese, G., Friedman, D. J., Ross, M. D., Lecordier, L., Uzureau, P., Freedman, B. I., et al. (2010). Association of trypanolytic ApoL1 variants with kidney disease in African Americans. Science 329, 841–845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diels, J.-C., and Arissian, L. (2011). Lasers. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Matyáš, V., Fischer-Hübner, S., Cvrček, D., and Švenda, P. eds. (2009). The Future of Identity in the Information Society: 4th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.6, 11.7/FIDIS International Summer School, Brno, Czech Republic, September 1-7, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rivera-Rubio, J., Idrees, S., Alexiou, I., Hadjilucas, L., and Bharath, A. A. (2013). “Mobile Visual Assistive Apps: Benchmarks of Vision Algorithm Performance,” in New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013: ICIAP 2013 International Workshops, Naples, Italy, September 9-13, 2013. Proceedings, eds. A. Petrosino, L. Maddalena, and P. Pala (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 30–40.

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 Endovascular and Interventional Neurology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016). Smallpox Was A Newly Emerging Disease When It Swept The World. IFLScience.

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 (1992). Mass Transit: Information on Federal Participation in Transit Benefit Programs. 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

Verret, J. E. (2019). Property Tax Limitations, School District Revenues, and Equity: Analyses of Pennsylvania’s Act One. 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

Dorment, L. P. (2017). Between Gigs, a TV Host Takes a Spin. New York Times, MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Raviv and Klein, 2002; Baker, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Raviv and Klein, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Genovese et al., 2010)

About the journal

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