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

Benton, M. J. (2009). The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time. Science 323, 728–732.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goodell, M. A., and Rando, T. A. (2015). Stem cells and healthy aging. Science 350, 1199–1204.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuang, S.-T., Kuo, Y.-H., and Su, M.-J. (2014). Antifibrotic effects of KS370G, a caffeamide derivative, in renal ischemia-reperfusion injured mice and renal tubular epithelial cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 5814.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peyser, L. A., Vinson, A. E., Bartko, A. P., and Dickson, R. M. (2001). Photoactivated fluorescence from individual silver nanoclusters. Science 291, 103–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albalate, A., and Minker, W. (2013). Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fouché, G. (2008). Accelerated VB 2008., ed. T. Nash. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Piomelli, U., and Scalo, C. (2010). “Large-eddy simulations of relaminarization due to freestream acceleration,” in Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition: Proceedings of the Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009, eds. P. Schlatter and D. S. Henningson (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 35–42.

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

Andrews, R. (2016). Stricter Parents Are Turning Their Children Into Effective Liars. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/stricter-parents-turning-children-effective-liars/ (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 (2010). Aviation Weather: Agencies Need to Improve Performance Measurement and Fully Address Key Challenges. 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

Birtler, E. R. (2014). Group therapy and knowledge of neuroplastic principles: The impact of health literacy on client locus of control in a therapy setting. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Williams, J. (2017). Alain Mabanckou. New York Times, C18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benton, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Benton, 2009; Goodell and Rando, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Goodell and Rando, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Peyser et al., 2001)

About the journal

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