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

Toms, D. J. (2010). Quantum gravitational contributions to quantum electrodynamics. Nature 468, 56–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liao, L., and Cao, Z. (2014). Directional scaling symmetry of high-symmetry two-dimensional lattices. Sci. Rep. 4, 6193.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reiner, S. L., Sallusto, F., and Lanzavecchia, A. (2007). Division of labor with a workforce of one: challenges in specifying effector and memory T cell fate. Science 317, 622–625.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yoshikawa, S., McKinnon, R. D., Kokel, M., and Thomas, J. B. (2003). Wnt-mediated axon guidance via the Drosophila Derailed receptor. Nature 422, 583–588.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nguyen, T. H. (2016). Leaders and Innovators. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pierce, G. N., Mizin, V. I., and Omelchenko, A. eds. (2013). Advanced Bioactive Compounds Countering the Effects of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Agents: Strategies to Counter Biological Damage. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Chkadua, O., Duduchava, R., and Kapanadze, D. (2013). “Potential Methods for Anisotropic Pseudo-Maxwell Equations in Screen Type Problems,” in Operator Theory, Pseudo-Differential Equations, and Mathematical Physics: The Vladimir Rabinovich Anniversary Volume, eds. Y. I. Karlovich, L. Rodino, B. Silbermann, and I. M. Spitkovsky (Basel: Springer), 73–93.

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

Fang, J. (2015). Researchers Achieve Record-Smashing Wireless Connection Speeds. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-achieve-record-smashing-wireless-connection-speeds/ (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). Basic Agreements With Educational Institutions or Nonprofit Organizations for Award of Research and Development Contracts. 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

Morales, C. J. (2010). Can early-life activity behavior predict adult compliance with an exercise program in later life? 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

Palmer, E., and Otis, J. (2017). Tradition of Helping Neediest Cases Inspires Readers to Give Back. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toms, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Toms, 2010; Liao and Cao, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Liao and Cao, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yoshikawa et al., 2003)

About the journal

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