How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neuro-Ophthalmology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Neuro-Ophthalmology. 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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Seeking out the élite. Nature 423, 97.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holland, M. D., and Hastings, A. (2008). Strong effect of dispersal network structure on ecological dynamics. Nature 456, 792–794.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gershman, S. J., Horvitz, E. J., and Tenenbaum, J. B. (2015). Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines. Science 349, 273–278.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brouwer, A. M., Frochot, C., Gatti, F. G., Leigh, D. A., Mottier, L., Paolucci, F., et al. (2001). Photoinduction of fast, reversible translational motion in a hydrogen-bonded molecular shuttle. Science 291, 2124–2128.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building (2016). Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Azzerboni, B., Asti, G., Pareti, L., and Ghidini, M. eds. (2008). Magnetic Nanostructures in Modern Technology: Spintronics, Magnetic MEMS and Recording. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Balsamo, S., Rossi, G.-L. D., and Marin, A. (2013). “Modelling Retrial-Upon-Conflict Systems with Product-Form Stochastic Petri Nets,” in Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications: 20th International Conference, ASMTA 2013, Ghent, Belgium, July 8-10, 2013. Proceedings, eds. A. Dudin and K. D. Turck (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 52–66.

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 Neuro-Ophthalmology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Blame It On Mum And Dad: How Genes Influence What We Eat. 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 (2011). Financial Education and Counseling Pilot 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

Shaker, M. (2015). Design of Front End Circuits for a Low Power Ultra Wide Band Receiver. 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

Koblin, J. (2017). Hit Show? No, but Close Enough. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2003; Holland and Hastings, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Holland and Hastings, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Brouwer et al., 2001)

About the journal

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