How to format your references using the Frontiers in Headache Medicine and Facial Pain citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Headache Medicine and Facial Pain. 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

Butler, D. (2004). Power to the people. Nature 430, 928–929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilman, S. L., and Glaze, F. E. (2005). History of science. “How science survived”--medieval manuscripts as fossils. Science 307, 1208–1209.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wade, J. T., Hall, D. B., and Struhl, K. (2004). The transcription factor Ifh1 is a key regulator of yeast ribosomal protein genes. Nature 432, 1054–1058.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang, Y., Ji, L., Huang, Q., Vassylyev, D. G., Chen, X., and Ma, J.-B. (2009). Structural insights into mechanisms of the small RNA methyltransferase HEN1. Nature 461, 823–827.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry, W. C. (2009). Introduction to Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bouguettaya, A., Hauswirth, M., and Liu, L. eds. (2011). Web Information System Engineering – WISE 2011: 12th International Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 13-14, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

McLeish, T. (2016). “Academic Freedom, Religion and the Natural Sciences,” in Reexamining Academic Freedom in Religiously Affiliated Universities: Transcending Orthodoxies, ed. K. Garcia (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 63–84.

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 Headache Medicine and Facial Pain.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015). Top Scientist Bizarrely Claims Women “Don’t Understand’ Fracking. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/female-scientist-claims-women-don-t-understand-fracking/ (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 (1997). District of Columbia Public Schools: Student Enrollment Count Remains Vulnerable to Errors. 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

Kim, B. (2013). Essays in the Dynamics Bayesian Models in Marketing. 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

Brantley, B. (2017). They Sing and Dance, but This Isn’t “La La Land’. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Butler, 2004; Gilman and Glaze, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gilman and Glaze, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Headache Medicine and Facial Pain
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology