How to format your references using the Frontiers in Movement Disorders citation style

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

Anderson, P. W. (2005). Thinking big. Nature 437, 625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruokolainen, K., and Tuomisto, H. (2002). Beta-diversity in tropical forests. Science 297, 1439; discussion 1439.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gwak, G., Ko, J., and Ju, H. (2014). Effects of porous properties on cold-start behavior of polymer electrolyte fuel cells from sub-zero to normal operating temperatures. Sci. Rep. 4, 5770.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hong, D. S., Chen, Y. S., Li, Y., Yang, H. W., Wei, L. L., Shen, B. G., et al. (2014). Evolution of conduction channel and its effect on resistance switching for Au-WO₃-x-Au devices. Sci. Rep. 4, 4058.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Masujima, M. (2005). Applied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lundbye, J. B. ed. (2012). Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest: Clinical Application and Management. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Seregni, E., Coli, A., and Mazzuca, N. (2008). “Circulating Tumour Markers in Breast Cancer,” in Breast Cancer: Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options, eds. E. Bombardieri, L. Gianni, and G. Bonadonna (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 33–42.

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 Movement Disorders.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016). Planet Earth II Stuns Viewers With A Jaguar Versus Caiman Clash. 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 (1997). Space Station: Cost Control Problems. 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

Curtis, K. J. (2010). Mozambican national anthems: Memory, performance, and nation-building. 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

Gordon, M. R. (2017). ISIS Holdouts in Raqqa Nearly Hemmed In by American-Backed Forces. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anderson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ruokolainen and Tuomisto, 2002; Anderson, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Ruokolainen and Tuomisto, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Movement Disorders
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology