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

Tittel, W. (2015). Quantum physics: Teleportation for two. Nature 518, 491–492.

A journal article with 2 authors

Purnell, B. A., and Hines, P. J. (2009). Steps to the clinic. Stem cells. Introduction. Science 324, 1661.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, X., Zhu, Y., and Granick, S. (2002). Hydrophobicity at a Janus interface. Science 295, 663–666.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang, Z., Han, S., Keller, M., Kaiser, A., Bender, B. J., Bosse, M., et al. (2018). Structural basis of ligand binding modes at the neuropeptide Y Y1 receptor. Nature 556, 520–524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, N. P. (2012). Troubleshooting Vacuum Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Seckbach, J., Oren, A., and Stan-Lotter, H. eds. (2013). Polyextremophiles: Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bartolini, S., Foglia, P., and Prete, C. A. (2011). “Eighth MEDEA Workshop,” in Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers III Lecture Notes in Computer Science., ed. P. Stenström (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 91–92.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). Scientists Finally Explain The Link Between Stress And Heart Attacks. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-finally-explain-link-between-stress-and-heart-attacks/ [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 (1998). Month In Review: December 1998: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications. 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

Liu, Y. (2013). Analysis on the distinct path in a star interconnection network.

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

Saulny, S. (2004). Club’s Owner And 2 Others Arrested in Raid. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tittel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Purnell and Hines, 2009; Tittel, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Purnell and Hines, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2018)

About the journal

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

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