How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neuroanatomy citation style

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

Sibum, H. O. (2004). Beyond the ivory tower. What kind of science is experimental physics? Science 306, 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Malone, J. H., and Michalak, P. (2008). Physiological sex predicts hybrid sterility regardless of genotype. Science 319, 59.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jonsson, G. E., Miljkovic, V., and Dmitriev, A. (2014). Nanoplasmon-enabled macroscopic thermal management. Sci. Rep. 4, 5111.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Grove, T. L., Till, C. B., Lev, E., Chatterjee, N., and Médard, E. (2009). Kinematic variables and water transport control the formation and location of arc volcanoes. Nature 459, 694–697.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pagliaro, M. (2010). Nano-Age. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Stephanidis, C. ed. (2013). HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts: International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Quarteroni, A., and Saleri, F. (2006). “Linear systems,” in Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave: Second Edition, ed. F. Saleri (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 123–166.

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 Neuroanatomy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Awesome Teenage Innovations That Deserve Showcasing. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/awesome-teenage-innovations-deserve-showcasing/ (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 (1986). Contract Pricing: Subcontractor Prices Overstated on AN/TSQ-111 Communications Contract. 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

Taylor, C. (2011). The Crowd. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Feeney, K. (2007). When Grease Is the Way You Are Feeling. New York Times, NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sibum, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Sibum, 2004; Malone and Michalak, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Malone and Michalak, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Grove et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
Abbreviation	Front. Neuroanat.
ISSN (online)	1662-5129
Scope	Anatomy Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience