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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 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	Download the output style file
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

DeWitt, N., 2008. Regenerative medicine. Nature 453, 301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wardle, M., Yusef-Zadeh, F., 2002. Supernova remnant OH masers: signposts of cosmic collision. Science 296, 2350–2354.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shinkai, K., Mohrs, M., Locksley, R.M., 2002. Helper T cells regulate type-2 innate immunity in vivo. Nature 420, 825–829.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Radajewski, S., Ineson, P., Parekh, N.R., Murrell, J.C., 2000. Stable-isotope probing as a tool in microbial ecology. Nature 403, 646–649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levander, C.F., 2013. Where is American Literature? Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Adams, A.A., Brenner, M., Smith, M. (Eds.), 2013. Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2013 Workshops, USEC and WAHC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, April 1, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Daley, W.P., Yamada, K.M., 2013. Cell–ECM Interactions and the Regulation of Epithelial Branching Morphogenesis, in: DeSimone, D.W., Mecham, R.P. (Eds.), Extracellular Matrix in Development, Biology of Extracellular Matrix. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 75–104.

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 Neuroendocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Why Do Cats Bring Home Dead Animals? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-cats-bring-home-dead-animals/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Unmanned Aerial Systems: Efforts Made toward Integration into the National Airspace Continue, but Many Actions Still Required (No. GAO-15-254T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Amanoua, K.P., 2014. Langue et identité dans les milieux populaires québécois et antillais (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kelly, M., 1993. Clinton Adds to Government to Help Him Subtract. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeWitt, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (DeWitt, 2008; Wardle and Yusef-Zadeh, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wardle and Yusef-Zadeh, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Radajewski et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Neuroendocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0091-3022
Scope	Endocrine and Autonomic Systems