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

Aldiss, B. (2000). Cognitive ability and the light bulb. Nature 403, 253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, T. J., and Mundy, G. R. (2007). Bone metastasis: can osteoclasts be excluded? Nature 445, E19; discussion E19-20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zaks, B., Liu, R. B., and Sherwin, M. S. (2012). Experimental observation of electron-hole recollisions. Nature 483, 580–583.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee, S. S., Kennedy, S., Tolonen, A. C., and Ruvkun, G. (2003). DAF-16 target genes that control C. elegans life-span and metabolism. Science 300, 644–647.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, G., and Broniatowski, M. (2017). Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vahrenhold, J. ed. (2009). Experimental Algorithms: 8th International Symposium, SEA 2009, Dortmund, Germany, June 4-6, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Skorupa, G. (2014). “Method of Constructing the Cognitive State for Context-Dependent Utterances in the Form of Conditionals,” in Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIV Lecture Notes in Computer Science., ed. N. T. Nguyen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 100–119.

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

Hale, T. (2015). Would You Wear An Engagement Ring Made Out Of Your Fiance’s Wisdom Tooth? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/forget-diamonds-engagement-ring-made-out-wisdom-tooth/ [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 (1980). U.S. General Accounting Office Strategic Plan for Administrative ADP Systems, 1981-85. 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

Hernandez, L. (2009). A culturally sensitive mentorship program for foster youth: A grant proposal.

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

Kelly, D. A. (2006). Advice to Mileage Misers: Use the Hoard Now. New York Times, TR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aldiss, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Aldiss, 2000; Martin and Mundy, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Mundy, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2003)

About the journal

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

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