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

Amelino-Camelia, G. (2007). Theoretical physics: walk the Planck. Nature 448, 257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ghalambor, C. K., and Martin, T. E. (2001). Fecundity-survival trade-offs and parental risk-taking in birds. Science 292, 494–497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eremtchenko, M., Schaefer, J. A., and Tautz, F. S. (2003). Understanding and tuning the epitaxy of large aromatic adsorbates by molecular design. Nature 425, 602–605.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Daniels, M. A., Teixeiro, E., Gill, J., Hausmann, B., Roubaty, D., Holmberg, K., et al. (2006). Thymic selection threshold defined by compartmentalization of Ras/MAPK signalling. Nature 444, 724–729.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reed, S. M., and Hrci (2017). The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Blanc-Talon, J., Kasinski, A., Philips, W., Popescu, D., and Scheunders, P. eds. (2013). Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 15th International Conference, ACIVS 2013, Poznań, Poland, October 28-31, 2013. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Leva, M. C., Kay, A. M., Mattei, F., Kontogiannis, T., De Ambroggi, M., and Cromie, S. (2009). “A Dynamic Task Representation Method for a Virtual Reality Application,” in Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: 8th International Conference, EPCE 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009. Proceedings, ed. D. Harris (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 32–42.

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 Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). How Penis Length Affects Performance. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/insect-penis-length-affects-performance/ (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 (1987). The Army’s Risk Assessment of Chemical Munitions Transportation. 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

Yuan, S. (2008). Aberrations of anamorphic optical systems. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012). Untouchable Pensions May Be Tested in California. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Amelino-Camelia, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ghalambor and Martin, 2001; Amelino-Camelia, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ghalambor and Martin, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Daniels et al., 2006)

About the journal

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