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

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

Trenberth, K. E. (2015). CLIMATE CHANGE. Has there been a hiatus? Science 349, 691–692.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teh, O.-K., and Moore, I. (2007). An ARF-GEF acting at the Golgi and in selective endocytosis in polarized plant cells. Nature 448, 493–496.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kasting, J. F., Catling, D. C., and Zahnle, K. (2012). Atmospheric oxygenation and volcanism. Nature 487, E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hashishin, T., Tan, Z., Yamamoto, K., Qiu, N., Kim, J., Numako, C., et al. (2014). Quenching ilmenite with a high-temperature and high-pressure phase using super-high-energy ball milling. Sci. Rep. 4, 4700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Salleh, S., Zomaya, A. Y., Olariu, S., and Sanugi, B. (2005). Numerical Simulations and Case Studies Using Visual C++.Net. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rapozzi, V., and Jori, G. eds. (2015). Resistance to Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Belazzougui, D., and Raffinot, M. (2013). “Average Optimal String Matching in Packed Strings,” in Algorithms and Complexity: 8th International Conference, CIAC 2013, Barcelona, Spain, May 22-24, 2013. Proceedings, eds. P. G. Spirakis and M. Serna (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 37–48.

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 Neurogenesis.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016). These Are Some Of The Most Horrifying Experiments Ever Conducted. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/these-are-some-of-the-most-horrifying-experiments-ever-conducted/ (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 (1971). Assessment of the Teacher Corps Program at Northern Arizona University and Participating Schools on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations. 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

Newberry, G. C. (2014). Students’ experiences with simulation education. Minneapolis, MN: Capella University.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012). Untouchable Pensions May Be Tested in California. 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 (Trenberth, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Teh and Moore, 2007; Trenberth, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Teh and Moore, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hashishin et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neurogenesis
Abbreviation	Front. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-453X
Scope	General Neuroscience