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

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

Hutson, J. M. (2010). Chemistry. Ultracold chemistry. Science 327, 788–789.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frank, T., and Friedrich, R. W. (2015). Neurobiology: Individuality sniffed out in flies. Nature 526, 200–201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao, Y., Jiang, J., and Huang, H. (2014). Chemical dechlorination of hexachlorobenzene with polyethylene glycol and hydroxide: dominant effect of temperature and ionic potential. Sci. Rep. 4, 6305.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lakatos, P., Karmos, G., Mehta, A. D., Ulbert, I., and Schroeder, C. E. (2008). Entrainment of neuronal oscillations as a mechanism of attentional selection. Science 320, 110–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cunningham, V. (2011). Victorian Poetry Now. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

van der Ark, L. A., Bolt, D. M., Wang, W.-C., Douglas, J. A., and Wiberg, M. eds. (2016). Quantitative Psychology Research: The 80th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Beijing, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Asakawa, Y., Ludwiczuk, A., and Nagashima, F. (2013). “Chemical Constituents of Bryophyta,” in Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes: Bio- and Chemical Diversity, Biological Activity, and Chemosystematics, eds. A. Ludwiczuk and F. Nagashima (Vienna: Springer), 563–605.

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 Integrative Neuroscience.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). NASA’s Juno Mission Involves A Scientific Joke That Took 400 Years To Set Up. 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 (1990). Problems Persist in Justice’s ADP Management and Organizations. 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

Selis, A. H. (2010). Holding the center: How one Jewish day school negotiates differences in a pluralistic community. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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. (2012). For Those Without Key Cards, Too. New York Times, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hutson, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hutson, 2010; Frank and Friedrich, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Frank and Friedrich, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lakatos et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Integr. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5145
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Sensory Systems