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

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

Donlan, J. (2005). Re-wilding North America. Nature 436, 913–914.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pelton, J. N., and Logsdon, J. (2008). Retrospective. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). Science 320, 189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bennett, V. C., Brandon, A. D., and Nutman, A. P. (2007). Coupled 142Nd-143Nd isotopic evidence for Hadean mantle dynamics. Science 318, 1907–1910.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jamwal, S., Midha, M. K., Verma, H. N., Basu, A., Rao, K. V. S., and Manivel, V. (2013). Characterizing virulence-specific perturbations in the mitochondrial function of macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sci. Rep. 3, 1328.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parker, J. S., and Anderson, R. L. (2014). Low-Energy Lunar Trajectory Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hall, P. J. ed. (2005). The Square Kilometre Array: An Engineering Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cooper, M. C., El Mouelhi, A., Terrioux, C., and Zanuttini, B. (2014). “On Broken Triangles,” in Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 20th International Conference, CP 2014, Lyon, France, September 8-12, 2014. Proceedings, ed. B. O’Sullivan (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 9–24.

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 Neuroenergetics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017). Watch The Moment A Herd Of Bison Are Returned To Canada’s Oldest National Park. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-the-moment-a-herd-of-bison-are-returned-to-canadas-oldest-national-park/ (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 (1977). Changing Patterns of Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, 1969-75. 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

Campos-Doerfler, L. (2017). The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome Stability. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Ruiz, R. R., and Rothenberg, B. (2016). Exceptions for Drugs Fall Under Scrutiny. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Donlan, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Donlan, 2005; Pelton and Logsdon, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pelton and Logsdon, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Jamwal et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuroenergetics
Abbreviation	Front. Neuroenergetics
ISSN (online)	1662-6427
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience