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

Nitzan, A. (2007). Chemistry. Molecules take the heat. Science 317, 759–760.

A journal article with 2 authors

Audétat, A., and Keppler, H. (2004). Viscosity of fluids in subduction zones. Science 303, 513–516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldini, G., Cannone, F., and Chirico, G. (2005). Pre-unfolding resonant oscillations of single green fluorescent protein molecules. Science 309, 1096–1100.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kravchenko, J. E., Rogozin, I. B., Koonin, E. V., and Chumakov, P. M. (2005). Transcription of mammalian messenger RNAs by a nuclear RNA polymerase of mitochondrial origin. Nature 436, 735–739.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ganda, K. M. (2013). Dentist’s Guide to Medical Conditions, Medications, and Complications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ao, S.-I., Rieger, B., and Chen, S.-S. eds. (2009). Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Belanzoni, P., Giorgi, G., and Cerofolini, G. (2013). “Bonding Configurations and Observed XPS Features at the Hydrogen Terminated (100) Si Surface: What Can We Gain from Computational Chemistry,” in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013: 13th International Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, June 24-27, 2013, Proceedings, Part I Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. B. Murgante, S. Misra, M. Carlini, C. M. Torre, H.-Q. Nguyen, D. Taniar, et al. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 57–68.

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). Tracked Great White Shark May Be Pregnant. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tracked-great-white-shark-may-be-pregnant/ [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 (1992). Detroit City Airport. 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

Tang, D. (2009). Event detection in sensor networks.

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

Pilon, M. (2012). I.O.C. Rejects ’72 Remembrance. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nitzan, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Audétat and Keppler, 2004; Nitzan, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Audétat and Keppler, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kravchenko et al., 2005)

About the journal

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

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