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

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

Schiermeier Q. NATO reform promises more publicity for less science. Nature (2003) 422:248.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hastings A, Palmer MA. Mathematics and biology. A bright future for biologists and mathematicians? Science (2003) 299:2003–2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hernlund JW, Thomas C, Tackley PJ. A doubling of the post-perovskite phase boundary and structure of the Earth’s lowermost mantle. Nature (2005) 434:882–886.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rocha AG, Franco A, Krezel AM, Rumsey JM, Alberti JM, Knight WC, Biris N, Zacharioudakis E, Janetka JW, Baloh RH, et al. MFN2 agonists reverse mitochondrial defects in preclinical models of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A. Science (2018) 360:336–341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGuiggan P. GPRS in Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2005).

An edited book

Boutaba R, Almeroth K, Puigjaner R, Shen S, Black JP eds. NETWORKING 2005. Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems: 4th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Waterloo, Canada, May 2-6, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2005). LX, 1487 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Brokate M, Kersting G. “Integrable Functions.,” In: Kersting G, editor. Measure and Integral. Compact Textbooks in Mathematics. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2015). p. 41–52

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 Neurology.

Blog post

Davis J. Farming Causes More Air Pollution Than All Other Human Sources Combined. IFLScience (2016) https://www.iflscience.com/environment/farming-causes-more-air-pollution-all-other-human-sources-combined/ [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. Financial Management Systems: Additional Efforts Needed to Address Key Causes of Modernization Failures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (2006).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Nelson PT. Sound as a gateway to a personal relationship with nature. [Doctoral dissertation]. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute (2008).

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

Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times (2015)C33.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neurology
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology