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

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

Knight, J. (2001). Drugs firms inflate research costs, watchdog says. Nature 412, 571.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ringler, P., and Schulz, G. E. (2003). Self-assembly of proteins into designed networks. Science 302, 106–109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fialkov, A., Barkana, R., and Visbal, E. (2014). The observable signature of late heating of the Universe during cosmic reionization. Nature 506, 197–199.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Marley, R., Giachello, C. N. G., Scrutton, N. S., Baines, R. A., and Jones, A. R. (2014). Cryptochrome-dependent magnetic field effect on seizure response in Drosophila larvae. Sci. Rep. 4, 5799.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carrasco, R. A., and Johnston, M. (2008). Non-Binary Error Control Coding for Wireless Communication and Data Storage. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Stadtler, H. (2012). Advanced Planning in Supply Chains: Illustrating the Concepts Using an SAP® APO Case Study., eds. B. Fleischmann, M. Grunow, H. Meyr, and C. Sürie. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Limaye, S. S., and Rengel, M. (2013). “Atmospheric Circulation and Dynamics,” in Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus: Applications of Terrestrial Models to Our Sister Planet, eds. L. Bengtsson, R.-M. Bonnet, D. Grinspoon, S. Koumoutsaris, S. Lebonnois, and D. Titov (New York, NY: Springer), 55–70.

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 Epilepsy.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015). Enormous Asteroid Discovered Last Week Will Whizz Past Earth On Halloween. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/halloween-asteroids-are-not-scaring-us/ (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 (1995). Tax Systems Modernization: Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Corrected If Modernization Is to Succeed. 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

Owsiak, N. K. (2008). Teacher quality accountability measures: Perceptions of degree and direction of influence on university -based teacher education programs. 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

Vecsey, G. (2011). A Love Story Affirmed Life In Time of War. New York Times, SP6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Knight, 2001; Ringler and Schulz, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Ringler and Schulz, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Marley et al., 2014)

About the journal

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