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

Nye, M. J. (2002). Portraits of science. “The most versatile physicist of his generation.” Science 296, 49–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birren, S. J., and Marder, E. (2013). Neuroscience. Plasticity in the neurotransmitter repertoire. Science 340, 436–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacMicking, J. D., Taylor, G. A., and McKinney, J. D. (2003). Immune control of tuberculosis by IFN-gamma-inducible LRG-47. Science 302, 654–659.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Robledo, L., Elzerman, J., Jundt, G., Atatüre, M., Högele, A., Fält, S., et al. (2008). Conditional dynamics of interacting quantum dots. Science 320, 772–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen, R. N. (2010). Practical Relativity. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Crescenzi, P., Prencipe, G., and Pucci, G. eds. (2007). Fun with Algorithms: 4th International Conference, FUN 2007, Castiglioncello, Italy, June 3-5, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Peterson, G. D. (2009). “Quality Assurance in the Preparation of Technical Professionals: The ABET Perspective,” in Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective, eds. A. Patil and P. Gray (Boston, MA: Springer US), 73–83.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016). Moving Closer To A Potential Fifth Force Of Nature. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/moving-closer-to-a-potential-fifth-force-of-nature/ (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 (2014). Federal Software Licenses: Most Agencies Have Reported Planned Actions to Address Our Prior Recommendations on Software License Management. 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

Zhu, M. (2017). Numerical Investigation of Encapsulation Technology in Polymer Flooding Processes. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Leibovich, M. (2014). The Real House Candidates of Beverly Hills. New York Times, MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nye, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Nye, 2002; Birren and Marder, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Birren and Marder, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Robledo et al., 2008)

About the journal

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