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

Batty, M. (2008). The size, scale, and shape of cities. Science 319, 769–771.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tosatti, E., and Prestipino, S. (2000). MATERIALS SCIENCE: Weird Gold Nanowires. Science 289, 561–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaminski, J. A., Sloutsky, V. M., and Heckler, A. F. (2008). Learning theory. The advantage of abstract examples in learning math. Science 320, 454–455.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Canali, E., Bolchi, A., Spagnoli, G., Seitz, H., Rubio, I., Pertinhez, T. A., et al. (2014). A high-performance thioredoxin-based scaffold for peptide immunogen construction: proof-of-concept testing with a human papillomavirus epitope. Sci. Rep. 4, 4729.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker, M. (2013). Happy-People-Pills For All. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.

An edited book

Dohi, T., and Liao, H. eds. (2012). Computer Aided Surgery: 7th Asian Conference on Computer Aided Surgery, Bangkok, Thailand, August 2011, Proceedings. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Martinez, Y. R., Rodriguez, H. B., Lozano, D. O., Alcázar, G. A. P., and Paz, J. C. (2009). “Magnetic and structural properties of mechanically alloyed Tb0.257−x Nd x Fe0.743 alloys, with x = 0 and 0.257,” in LACAME 2006: Proceedings of the 10th Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (LACAME 2006) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5–9 November 2006, eds. C. Larica, R. C. Mercader, C. Partiti, and J. R. Gancedo (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 29–34.

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

Fang, J. (2014). Researchers Discover Off Switch for Ageing Cells. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-discover-switch-old-cells/ (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 (1982). Evaluation of NASA Compliance With Congressional Reprogramming Requirements. 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

Stadalis, M. D. (2015). Development of a Conceptual Model and Instrument for Sustaining Successful School Reculturing and Reform Efforts. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Steven Lee Myers;, and Joyce H. Man contributed reporting for this article (2005). Emphasizing Creativity, Not Collectivity. New York Times, B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Batty, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Tosatti and Prestipino, 2000; Batty, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Tosatti and Prestipino, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Canali et al., 2014)

About the journal

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