How to format your references using the Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience citation style

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

Giraldeau, L.-A. (2011). Psychology. When more is more. Science 334, 910–911.

A journal article with 2 authors

Floreano, D., and Wood, R. J. (2015). Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones. Nature 521, 460–466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ugalde, J. A., Chang, B. S. W., and Matz, M. V. (2004). Evolution of coral pigments recreated. Science 305, 1433.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Noguera-Troise, I., Daly, C., Papadopoulos, N. J., Coetzee, S., Boland, P., Gale, N. W., et al. (2006). Blockade of Dll4 inhibits tumour growth by promoting non-productive angiogenesis. Nature 444, 1032–1037.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigrist, J.-F. (2015). Fluid-Structure Interaction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Watson, R. R., Preedy, V. R., and Zibadi, S. eds. (2013). Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Shanahan, M. E. R., and Possart, W. (2011). “Wetting of Solids,” in Handbook of Adhesion Technology, eds. L. F. M. da Silva, A. Öchsner, and R. D. Adams (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 65–91.

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 Evolutionary Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Promising Antibody That Neutralises HIV Shows Why We Shouldn’t Give Up On A Vaccine. 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 (1977). Report to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on Fundamental Improvements Needed for Timely Promulgation of Health Program Regulations. 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

Mickels, B. J. (2010). A phenomenological research study on the formation of global business teams. 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

Scott, M. (2017). Google Is Fined $2.7 Billion for Crowding Out European Rivals. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giraldeau, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Giraldeau, 2011; Floreano and Wood, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Floreano and Wood, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Noguera-Troise et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Evol. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1663-070X
Scope	Clinical Neurology General Neuroscience