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

Cohen, M. D. (2008). Economics. Learning with regret. Science 319, 1052–1053.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loog, M., and Morgan, D. O. (2005). Cyclin specificity in the phosphorylation of cyclin-dependent kinase substrates. Nature 434, 104–108.

A journal article with 3 authors

Titus, T. N., Kieffer, H. H., and Christensen, P. R. (2003). Exposed water ice discovered near the south pole of Mars. Science 299, 1048–1051.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kadokura, H., Tian, H., Zander, T., Bardwell, J. C. A., and Beckwith, J. (2004). Snapshots of DsbA in action: detection of proteins in the process of oxidative folding. Science 303, 534–537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner, D. (2011). A History of Modern Drama. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cao, L., Bazzan, A. L. C., Gorodetsky, V., Mitkas, P. A., Weiss, G., and Yu, P. S. eds. (2010). Agents and Data Mining Interaction: 6th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Figueiredo, M. (2013). “The Universal Nature of Human Rights: The Brazilian Stance Within Latin America’s Human Rights Scenario,” in The Universalism of Human Rights, ed. R. Arnold (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 81–101.

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

Davis, J. (2016). Tallest Tree In The Tropics Found In The Remote Malaysian Rainforest. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tallest-tree-in-the-tropics-found-in-the-remote-malaysian-rainforest/ (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). The Impact of Federal Commodity Donations on the School Lunch 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

Bodenmiller, J. J. (2015). A quantitative relational analysis of leadership style and leader-accountability in nonprofit organizations. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017). Nadal Seeks to Recapture Wimbledon Success. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cohen, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Loog and Morgan, 2005; Cohen, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Loog and Morgan, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kadokura et al., 2004)

About the journal

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