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

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

Stocum, D. L. (2007). Developmental biology. Acceptable nAGging. Science 318, 754–755.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dar-Nimrod, I., and Heine, S. J. (2006). Exposure to scientific theories affects women’s math performance. Science 314, 435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sato, T., Atomi, H., and Imanaka, T. (2007). Archaeal type III RuBisCOs function in a pathway for AMP metabolism. Science 315, 1003–1006.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ding, B.-S., Nolan, D. J., Butler, J. M., James, D., Babazadeh, A. O., Rosenwaks, Z., et al. (2010). Inductive angiocrine signals from sinusoidal endothelium are required for liver regeneration. Nature 468, 310–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keegan, K. D. (2008). Biotechnology Valuation. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Dundas, B. I., Levine, M., Østvær, P. A., Röndigs, O., and Voevodsky, V. eds. (2007). Motivic Homotopy Theory: Lectures at a Summer School in Nordfjordeid, Norway, August 2002. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cuesta, C. E., Martínez-Prieto, M. A., and Fernández, J. D. (2013). “Towards an Architecture for Managing Big Semantic Data in Real-Time,” in Software Architecture: 7th European Conference, ECSA 2013, Montpellier, France, July 1-5, 2013. Proceedings, ed. K. Drira (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 45–53.

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 Education.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2016). Pika Populations in Peril Due To Climate Change. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pika-populations-in-peril-due-to-climate-change/ (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 (2011). General Aviation: Security Assessments at Selected Airports. 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

Baker, D. (2016). Does team patient care mean better patient outcomes? 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

Robertson, C., and Blinder, A. (2016). Grim View Emerges as Louisiana Flood Recedes. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocum, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Dar-Nimrod and Heine, 2006; Stocum, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Dar-Nimrod and Heine, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ding et al., 2010)

About the journal

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