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

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

Gal-Yam, A. (2012). Luminous supernovae. Science 337, 927–932.

A journal article with 2 authors

Little, D. P., and Jeanson, M. L. (2013). DNA barcode authentication of saw palmetto herbal dietary supplements. Sci. Rep. 3, 3518.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palenzuela, C., Lehner, L., and Liebling, S. L. (2010). Dual jets from binary black holes. Science 329, 927–930.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Aso, R., Kan, D., Shimakawa, Y., and Kurata, H. (2013). Atomic level observation of octahedral distortions at the perovskite oxide heterointerface. Sci. Rep. 3, 2214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hecht, J. (2008). Understanding Lasers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maruhn, J. A. (2010). Simple Models of Many-Fermion Systems., eds. P.-G. Reinhard and E. Suraud. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Makowsky, J. (2009). “Connection Matrices for MSOL-Definable Structural Invariants,” in Logic and Its Applications: Third Indian Conference, ICLA 2009, Chennai, India, January 7-11, 2009. Proceedings, eds. R. Ramanujam and S. Sarukkai (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 51–64.

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 Neurogenomics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015). Meet Motobot: Yamaha’s Motocycle-Riding Robot. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/meet-motobot-yamahas-motocycle-riding-robot/ (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 (1986). ADP Equipment: Revised GSA Strategy for Microcomputer Purchases Can Improve Competition. 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

Faello, J. P. (2012). Is strong corporate governance associated with informative income smoothing? Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Markoff, J. (2017). Shhh! That Helpful Robot May Pose a Security Risk. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gal-Yam, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gal-Yam, 2012; Little and Jeanson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Little and Jeanson, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Aso et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neurogenomics
Abbreviation	Front. Genet.
ISSN (online)	1664-8021
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical)