How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neurocritical and Neurohospitalist Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Neurocritical and Neurohospitalist Care. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Watts, C. (2004). Immunology. The bell tolls for phagosome maturation. Science 304, 976–977.
A journal article with 2 authors
Trujillo, C. A., and Sheppard, S. S. (2014). A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units. Nature 507, 471–474.
A journal article with 3 authors
Haitin, Y., Carlson, A. E., and Zagotta, W. N. (2013). The structural mechanism of KCNH-channel regulation by the eag domain. Nature 501, 444–448.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
Luo, M., Li, Z.-Z., Li, Y.-Y., Chen, L.-Z., Yan, S.-P., Chen, P., et al. (2014). Relationship between red cell distribution width and serum uric acid in patients with untreated essential hypertension. Sci. Rep. 4, 7291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
O’Neil, P. V. (2008). Beginning Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Maharatna, K., Dalapati, G. K., Banerjee, P. K., Mallick, A. K., and Mukherjee, M. eds. (2015). Computational Advancement in Communication Circuits and Systems: Proceedings of ICCACCS 2014. New Delhi: Springer India.
A chapter in an edited book
Andrade, W. L., and Machado, P. D. L. (2009). “Interruption Testing of Reactive Systems,” in Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications: 12th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2009 Gramado, Brazil, August 19-21, 2009 Revised Selected Papers, eds. M. V. M. Oliveira and J. Woodcock (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 37–53.

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 Neurocritical and Neurohospitalist Care.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2015). How To Make Sure You’ll Have Tall, Healthy Kids. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/look-beyond-family-tree-if-you-want-tall-healthy-kids/ (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 (1994). School-Age Children: Poverty and Diversity Challenge Schools Nationwide. 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
Gerhart, T. (2013). Convex optimization techniques and their application in hyperspectral video processing. 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
Koblin, J. (2017). ‘Walking Dead’ Producers Sue Its Network. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watts, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Watts, 2004; Trujillo and Sheppard, 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Trujillo and Sheppard, 2014)
  • Three or more authors: (Luo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleFrontiers in Neurocritical and Neurohospitalist Care
AbbreviationFront. Neurol.
ISSN (online)1664-2295
ScopeClinical Neurology
Neurology

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