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

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

Levitan, I. B. (2004). Cell biology. A well-stocked pool. Science 304, 394–395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milisavljevic, D., and Fesen, R. A. (2015). Supernovae. The bubble-like interior of the core-collapse supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Science 347, 526–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Achlioptas, D., D’Souza, R. M., and Spencer, J. (2009). Explosive percolation in random networks. Science 323, 1453–1455.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Elf, J., Nilsson, D., Tenson, T., and Ehrenberg, M. (2003). Selective charging of tRNA isoacceptors explains patterns of codon usage. Science 300, 1718–1722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brook, M. V. (2011). Ultrasonic Inspection Technology Development and Search Unit Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Glinz, M., and Heymans, P. eds. (2009). Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 15th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8-9, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kostis, W. J., Zusman, R. M., and Zusman, R. M. (2014). “Hypertension,” in MGH Cardiology Board Review, eds. H. K. Gaggin and J. L. Januzzi Jr. (London: Springer), 86–104.

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 Human Neuroscience.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015). Evidence Of Cannibalism In Ancient Humans. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/our-ancestors-drank-human-skulls/ (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 (1992). Drug Education: Rural Programs Have Many Components and Most Rely Heavily on Federal Funds. 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

Toler, R. L. (2017). Structural Equation Modeling of Advertising Involvement, Consumer Attitude, and Engagement for Video Advertising in a Social Networking Site. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Barron, J. (2017). Theater Evokes a Non-Disposable Experience, And It Starts With What’s Served at the Bar. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levitan, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Levitan, 2004; Milisavljevic and Fesen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Milisavljevic and Fesen, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Elf et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Hum. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5161
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Behavioral Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry Neurology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology