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

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

Nowotny, H. (2005). Science and society. High- and low-cost realities for science and society. Science 308, 1117–1118.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flowers, R. M., and Farley, K. A. (2012). Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon. Science 338, 1616–1619.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maskus, K. E., Mobarak, A. M., and Stuen, E. T. (2013). Economics. Doctoral students and U.S. immigration policy. Science 342, 562–563.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lard, M., ten Siethoff, L., Månsson, A., and Linke, H. (2013). Tracking actomyosin at fluorescence check points. Sci. Rep. 3, 1092.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, D. L. (2006). Practical Wastewater Treatment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fleiner, C., and Woodacre, E. eds. (2016). Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Rusek, R., and Colomer-Llinas, J. (2016). “Public Facilities Driven by Service Demand for Space,” in Advances in Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, ed. J. Charytonowicz (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 39–50.

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 Neurodegeneration.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016). Scientists Discover 20 Shark Pups In The First Tiger Shark Sonogram Ever. 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 (2001). Alternative Market Mechanisms for the Student Loan Program. 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

Ma, B. (2012). Improving the performance of hyperspectral target detection. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Walsh, M. W. (2015). Calstrs Eyes a Strategy to Cut Risk. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nowotny, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Nowotny, 2005; Flowers and Farley, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Flowers and Farley, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lard et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neurodegeneration
Abbreviation	Front. Psychiatry
ISSN (online)	1664-0640
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health