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

Keil, F. C. (2011). Psychology. Science starts early. Science 331, 1022–1023.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wright, S. I., and Barrett, S. C. H. (2010). Evolution. The long-term benefits of self-rejection. Science 330, 459–460.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kärkäs, M. D., Matsuura, B. S., and Stephenson, C. R. J. (2015). ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Enchained by visible light-mediated photoredox catalysis. Science 349, 1285–1286.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He, J., Ma, L., Kim, S., Nakai, J., and Yu, C. R. (2008). Encoding gender and individual information in the mouse vomeronasal organ. Science 320, 535–538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nordenström, J. (2012). The Hunt for the Parathyroids. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Gupta, S., Paul, W. E., and Steinman, R. eds. (2005). Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation X: Innate Immunity. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Khan, S., and Malik, A. (2014). “Environmental and Health Effects of Textile Industry Wastewater,” in Environmental Deterioration and Human Health: Natural and anthropogenic determinants, eds. A. Malik, E. Grohmann, and R. Akhtar (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 55–71.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). Lyrid Meteor Shower Peak Live Webcast. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/lyrid-meteor-shower-peak-live-webcast/ (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 (2011). DOD Education Benefits: Further Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Tuition Assistance Program. 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

John, S. P. (2017). Drying without Dying: The Resurrection Fern Pleopeltis polypodioides. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Billard, M. (2010). Baubles And Bags To Customize. New York Times, E7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keil, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Wright and Barrett, 2010; Keil, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wright and Barrett, 2010)
Three or more authors: (He et al., 2008)

About the journal

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