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:

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

McDowell, G. (2015). Why not have a life? Science 349, 554.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schulze-Lefert, P., and Bieri, S. (2005). Plant sciences. Recognition at a distance. Science 308, 506–508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohbayashi, M., Ohki, K., and Miyashita, Y. (2003). Conversion of working memory to motor sequence in the monkey premotor cortex. Science 301, 233–236.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Guo, J., Ling, H., Wu, Q., Xu, L., and Que, Y. (2014). The choice of reference genes for assessing gene expression in sugarcane under salinity and drought stresses. Sci. Rep. 4, 7042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beneke, D., Peters, M., Glasser, D., and Hildebrandt, D. (2012). Understanding Distillation Using Column Profile Maps. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brown, L. ed. (2013). Pathology of the Vulva and Vagina. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chikhaoui, B., Wang, S., and Pigot, H. (2011). “Activity Recognition in Smart Environments: An Information Retrieval Problem,” in Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities: 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011. Proceedings, eds. B. Abdulrazak, S. Giroux, B. Bouchard, H. Pigot, and M. Mokhtari (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 33–40.

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). The Future Is Bright, The Future Is … Quantum Dot Televisions. 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 (1999). Aviation Competition: Information on the Department of Transportation’s Proposed Policy. 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

Cuomo, A. P. (2013). SB 48 and social media: Constituing an audience for and against California’s LGBT education legislation. 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

Harwood, J. (2016). Republicans are battling themselves. New York Times, A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McDowell, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Schulze-Lefert and Bieri, 2005; McDowell, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schulze-Lefert and Bieri, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neurocritical and Neurohospitalist Care
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology