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

Kane, G. (2011). Particle physics is at a turning point. Nature 480, 415.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leitch, A. R., and Leitch, I. J. (2008). Genomic plasticity and the diversity of polyploid plants. Science 320, 481–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

Terrones, H., López-Urías, F., and Terrones, M. (2013). Novel hetero-layered materials with tunable direct band gaps by sandwiching different metal disulfides and diselenides. Sci. Rep. 3, 1549.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hart, R. J., Lawres, L., Fritzen, E., Ben Mamoun, C., and Aly, A. S. I. (2014). Plasmodium yoelii vitamin B5 pantothenate transporter candidate is essential for parasite transmission to the mosquito. Sci. Rep. 4, 5665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brillson, L. J. (2016). An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bush, M. B. (2007). Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change., ed. J. R. Flenley. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carpentieri, G., Fraternali, F., and Skelton, R. E. (2016). “A Tensegrity Paradigm for Minimal Mass Design of Roofs and Bridges,” in Innovative Numerical Approaches for Multi-Field and Multi-Scale Problems: In Honor of Michael Ortiz’s 60th Birthday, eds. K. Weinberg and A. Pandolfi (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 91–114.

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

Fang, J. (2015). Researchers Discover Extra DNA Base. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-discover-extra-dna-base-thats-stable-mice/ (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). Financial Literacy: Overview of Federal Activities, Programs, and Challenges. 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

Guedez, A. (2017). Developing Correlations for Velocity Models in Vertical Transverse Isotropic Media: Bakken Case Study. 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

Winerip, M., and Schwirtz, M. (2015). Federal Inquiry on Rikers Turns to Union Chief. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kane, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Leitch and Leitch, 2008; Kane, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Leitch and Leitch, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hart et al., 2014)

About the journal

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