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

Kerrick, D. (2002). Geology. Serpentinite seduction. Science 298, 1344–1345.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simmons, N. A., and Gurrola, H. (2000). Multiple seismic discontinuities near the base of the transition zone in the Earth’s mantle. Nature 405, 559–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe, Y., Martini, J. E., and Ohmoto, H. (2000). Geochemical evidence for terrestrial ecosystems 2.6 billion years ago. Nature 408, 574–578.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

An, J., Park, J. S., Koh, A. L., Lee, H. B., Jung, H. J., Schoonman, J., et al. (2013). Atomic scale verification of oxide-ion vacancy distribution near a single grain boundary in YSZ. Sci. Rep. 3, 2680.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wong, K. D. (2011). Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wilson, T. L. (2009). Tools of Radio Astronomy., eds. K. Rohlfs and S. Hüttemeister. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Güneralp, B., and Seto, K. C. (2013). “Sub-regional Assessment of China: Urbanization in Biodiversity Hotspots,” in Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities: A Global Assessment, eds. T. Elmqvist, M. Fragkias, J. Goodness, B. Güneralp, P. J. Marcotullio, R. I. McDonald, et al. (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 57–63.

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

Andrews, R. (2017). Italian Supervolcano Could Be Closer To Erupting Than Previously Thought. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/italian-supervolcano-is-far-closer-to-erupting-than-previously-thought/ (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 (1987). Youth Job Training: Problems Measuring Attainment of Employment Competencies. 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

Rudoy, S. I. (2014). Developing a model for understanding mindfulness as a potential intervention for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Erlanger, S., and Anderson, C. (2017). Assange Rape Inquiry Is Dropped, but His Legal Troubles Remain Daunting. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerrick, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Simmons and Gurrola, 2000; Kerrick, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Simmons and Gurrola, 2000)
Three or more authors: (An et al., 2013)

About the journal

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