How to format your references using the Frontiers in Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology. 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

Bignami, G. F. (2008). Astronomy. Gamma rays and neutron stars. Science 322, 1193–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eberl, G., and Littman, D. R. (2004). Thymic origin of intestinal alphabeta T cells revealed by fate mapping of RORgammat+ cells. Science 305, 248–251.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh, K. J., Richardson, D. C., and Michel, P. (2008). Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids. Nature 454, 188–191.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Naqvi, N. H., Rudrauf, D., Damasio, H., and Bechara, A. (2007). Damage to the insula disrupts addiction to cigarette smoking. Science 315, 531–534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, G. M., and Furlong, J. C. (2010). Environmental Biotechnology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Godara, B., and Nikita, K. S. eds. (2013). Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare: Third International Conference, MobiHealth 2012, Paris, France, November 21-23, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

John, I. (2006). “Capturing Product Line Information from Legacy User Documentation,” in Software Product Lines, eds. T. Käköla and J. C. Duenas (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 127–159.

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 Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017). Tarantulas Are Right-Handed, Study Suggests. 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 (2008). Social Security Administration Field Offices: Reduced Workforce Faces Challenges as Baby Boomers Retire. 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

Mier, L. M. (2012). Monitoring Electron Transfer Reactions using Ultrafast UV-Visible and Infrared Spectroscopy. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

Hardy, M. (2017). After Storm, Houston Hopes to Regain Tourism Momentum. New York Times, TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bignami, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Eberl and Littman, 2004; Bignami, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Eberl and Littman, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Naqvi et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology