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

Luo, J.-J. (2011). Climate science: ocean dynamics not required? Nature 477, 544–546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yashin, V. V., and Balazs, A. C. (2006). Pattern formation and shape changes in self-oscillating polymer gels. Science 314, 798–801.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugiyama, T., Suzuki, H., and Takahashi, T. (2014). Light-induced rapid Ca²⁺ response and MAPK phosphorylation in the cells heterologously expressing human OPN5. Sci. Rep. 4, 5352.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Grigg, S. P., Canales, C., Hay, A., and Tsiantis, M. (2005). SERRATE coordinates shoot meristem function and leaf axial patterning in Arabidopsis. Nature 437, 1022–1026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bruen, G. O. (2015). WHOIS Running the Internet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cash, P., Stanković, T., and Štorga, M. eds. (2016). Experimental Design Research: Approaches, Perspectives, Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, Y., Mitryukovskiy, S., Ding, P., Point, G., Brelet, Y., Houard, A., et al. (2015). “Backward Lasing of Femtosecond Plasma Filaments,” in Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII, eds. K. Yamanouchi, L. Roso, R. Li, D. Mathur, and D. Normand (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 89–103.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016). Evidence Mounts For The Existence Of Planet Nine. 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 (1982). Discontinuance of Social Security Student Benefits. 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

Gravano, A. (2009). Turn-taking and affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Schmidt, S. (2016). In City Rich in History, Unusual Plan to Preserve Poet’s Home. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Luo, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Yashin and Balazs, 2006; Luo, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Yashin and Balazs, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Grigg et al., 2005)

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