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

Sambles, J. R. (2015). Optics. Structured photons take it slow. Science 347, 828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bisley, J. W., and Goldberg, M. E. (2003). Neuronal activity in the lateral intraparietal area and spatial attention. Science 299, 81–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C., and Zackrisson, O. (2008). Fire-derived charcoal causes loss of forest humus. Science 320, 629.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lam, H., Oh, D.-C., Cava, F., Takacs, C. N., Clardy, J., de Pedro, M. A., et al. (2009). D-amino acids govern stationary phase cell wall remodeling in bacteria. Science 325, 1552–1555.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smed, J., and Hakonen, H. (2017). Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dieste, O., Jedlitschka, A., and Juristo, N. eds. (2012). Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 13th International Conference, PROFES 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 13-15, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cook, R. T. (2011). “Vagueness and Meaning,” in Vagueness: A Guide, ed. G. Ronzitti (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 83–106.

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

Fang, J. (2015). Why Baby Planets Didn’t Just Fall into their Stars. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-baby-planets-didnt-just-fall-their-stars/ (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 (1980). Better Management and More Resources Needed To Strengthen Federal Efforts To Improve Pregnancy Outcome. 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

Gonzalez, H. M. (2017). DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic Business Plan. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2016). When There’s Nothing Like a Good Cry. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sambles, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bisley and Goldberg, 2003; Sambles, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bisley and Goldberg, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lam et al., 2009)

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