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

Church, J. A. (2007). Oceans. A change in circulation? Science 317, 908–909.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlapbach, L., and Züttel, A. (2001). Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications. Nature 414, 353–358.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, M., Yu, X., and Ahlberg, P. E. (2001). A primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk. Nature 410, 81–84.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Donner, T., Ritter, S., Bourdel, T., Ottl, A., Köhl, M., and Esslinger, T. (2007). Critical behavior of a trapped interacting Bose gas. Science 315, 1556–1558.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams, D. L. (2012). Ophthalmology of Exotic Pets. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rettinger, J. (2016). Electrophysiology: Basics, Modern Approaches and Applications., eds. S. Schwarz and W. Schwarz. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Luong, D.-H., Outtagarts, A., and Hebbar, A. (2016). “Traffic Monitoring in Software Defined Networks Using Opendaylight Controller,” in Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking: Second International Conference, MSPN 2016, Paris, France, June 1-3, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, eds. S. Boumerdassi, É. Renault, and S. Bouzefrane (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 38–48.

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

Hale, T. (2016). Rare Drone Footage Captures Whales Hunting Down And Grabbing A Shark. 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 (1993). Airport Improvement Program: Opportunity to Consider FAA’s Role in Meeting Airport System Needs. 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

Ledgister, N. L. (2015). A study of transformational leadership and job satisfaction among leaders in Jamaica Baptist Union churches. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007). Justices Overturn $79.5 Million in Punitive Damages Against Philip Morris. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Church, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Schlapbach and Züttel, 2001; Church, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Schlapbach and Züttel, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Donner et al., 2007)

About the journal

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