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

Petrukovich, A. A. (2008). Planetary science. The elusive onset of geomagnetic substorms. Science 321, 920–921.

A journal article with 2 authors

McLean, P. F., and Cooley, L. (2013). Protein equilibration through somatic ring canals in Drosophila. Science 340, 1445–1447.

A journal article with 3 authors

Balco, G., Rovey, C. W., 2nd, and Stone, J. O. H. (2005). The first glacial maximum in North America. Science 307, 222.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fayrer-Hosken, R. A., Grobler, D., Van Altena, J. J., Bertschinger, H. J., and Kirkpatrick, J. F. (2000). Immunocontraception of African elephants. Nature 407, 149.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guzik, A. (2013). Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Benner, P., Bollhöfer, M., Kressner, D., Mehl, C., and Stykel, T. eds. (2015). Numerical Algebra, Matrix Theory, Differential-Algebraic Equations and Control Theory: Festschrift in Honor of Volker Mehrmann. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pestana, E. A., Belak, S., Diallo, A., Crowther, J. R., and Viljoen, G. J. (2010). “Disease Diagnosis Using Real-Time PCR Specific Procedures for Important Veterinary Pathogens,” in Early, rapid and sensitive veterinary molecular diagnostics - real time PCR applications, eds. S. Belak, A. Diallo, J. R. Crowther, and G. J. Viljoen (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 73–234.

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

Andrews, R. (2016). The Atacama Desert Had Freshwater Lakes 9,000 Years Ago. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/atacama-desert-freshwater-lakes-9000-years-ago/ (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 (2002). Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Gittens, B. E. (2009). Perceptions of the applicability of transformational leadership behavior to the leader role of academic department chairs: A study of selected universities in Virginia. 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

Crow, K. (2003). On Chinatown’s Basketball Courts, It’s the Year of Yao. New York Times, 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petrukovich, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Petrukovich, 2008; McLean and Cooley, 2013).

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

Two authors: (McLean and Cooley, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Fayrer-Hosken et al., 2000)

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