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

Moskvitch, K. (2014). Astronomy: To catch a cosmic ray. Nature 514, 20–22.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouwens, R. J., and Illingworth, G. D. (2006). Rapid evolution of the most luminous galaxies during the first 900 million years. Nature 443, 189–192.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bourne, P. E., Lorsch, J. R., and Green, E. D. (2015). Perspective: Sustaining the big-data ecosystem. Nature 527, S16-7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mondello, S., Buki, A., Barzo, P., Randall, J., Provuncher, G., Hanlon, D., et al. (2014). CSF and plasma amyloid-β temporal profiles and relationships with neurological status and mortality after severe traumatic brain injury. Sci. Rep. 4, 6446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paolella, M. S. (2006). Fundamental Probability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Johnson-Hanks, J. A. (2011). Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action. , eds. C. A. Bachrach, S. P. Morgan, and H.-P. Kohler Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Murphy, S. E., and von Weymarn, L. B. (2008). “Mechanism-Based Inactivation of Cytochrome P450 2A and 2B Enzymes,” in Advances in Bioactivation Research, ed. A. Elfarra (New York, NY: Springer), 1–29.

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. (2017). This Robotic Flying Bat Could Be The Future Of Drones. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-flying-bat-future-drones/ [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 (1981). Government-Wide Guidelines and Management Assistance Center Needed To Improve ADP Systems Development. 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

Mickels, B. J. (2010). A phenomenological research study on the formation of global business teams.

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

Feeney, K. (2009). A Tea ‘Room,’ on 2 Floors. New York Times, NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moskvitch, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bouwens and Illingworth, 2006; Moskvitch, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bouwens and Illingworth, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mondello et al., 2014)

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

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