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

Assad, J. A. (2014). Neuroscience: Updating views of visual updating. Nature 507, 434–435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyerly, A. D., and Faden, R. R. (2007). Embryonic stem cells. Willingness to donate frozen embryos for stem cell research. Science 317, 46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, C., Wang, P., and Makse, H. A. (2008). A phase diagram for jammed matter. Nature 453, 629–632.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fontanilla, D., Johannessen, M., Hajipour, A. R., Cozzi, N. V., Jackson, M. B., and Ruoho, A. E. (2009). The hallucinogen N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is an endogenous sigma-1 receptor regulator. Science 323, 934–937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spatschek, K.-H. (2011). High Temperature Plasmas. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Fernandes, G. W. ed. (2016). Ecology and Conservation of Mountaintop grasslands in Brazil. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lvova, L., Paolesse, P., Di Natale, C., Martinelli, E., Mazzone, E., Orsini, A., et al. (2007). “CHEMICAL IMAGES OF LIQUIDS,” in Imaging for Detection and Identification, ed. J. Byrnes (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 63–95.

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

Davis, J. (2016). “Intelligent” Slime Mold Can Teach Other Colonies By Fusing With Them. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/intelligent-slime-mold-can-teach-other-colonies-by-fusing-with-them/ (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 (2000). Army Corps of Engineers: An Assessment of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement of the Lower Snake River Dams. 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

Mc Adams, A. N. (2012). School psychologists’ perceptions of procedural fidelity in special education. 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

Walsh, M. W. (2016). California Town and Its Public Retirees Reel Under $1.6 Million Pension Bill. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Assad, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lyerly and Faden, 2007; Assad, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lyerly and Faden, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Fontanilla et al., 2009)

About the journal

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