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

Hill, M. (2015). Perspective: Be clear about the real risks. Nature 525, S14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson, A. J., and Schoeman, D. S. (2004). Climate impact on plankton ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic. Science 305, 1609–1612.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karl, M., Nowak, B., and Gasenzer, T. (2013). Tuning universality far from equilibrium. Sci. Rep. 3, 2394.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ji, Q., Luo, Z.-X., Zhang, X., Yuan, C.-X., and Xu, L. (2009). Evolutionary development of the middle ear in Mesozoic therian mammals. Science 326, 278–281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo, M. (2014). Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Daniilidis, K., Maragos, P., and Paragios, N. eds. (2010). Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bdiwi, M., Kolker, A., Suchý, J., and Winkler, A. (2013). “Automated Assistance Robot System for Transferring Model-Free Objects From/To Human Hand Using Vision/Force Control,” in Social Robotics: 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013, Bristol, UK, October 27-29, 2013, Proceedings, eds. G. Herrmann, M. J. Pearson, A. Lenz, P. Bremner, A. Spiers, and U. Leonards (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 40–53.

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

Andrews, R. (2017). What Would Happen If All The Water In The World Suddenly Disappeared? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/happen-water-world-disappeared/ (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 (2008). Commercial Drivers: Certification Process for Drivers with Serious Medical Conditions. 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

Mullican, C. D. (2012). Multiple Intelligences in the Text: Examining the Presence of Multiple Intelligences Tasks in the Annotated Teacher’s Editions of Four High School United States History Textbooks. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Kelly, M. (1993). THE INAUGURATION: Seizing the Day; New President Brings Opportunity to Cash In. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hill, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Richardson and Schoeman, 2004; Hill, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Richardson and Schoeman, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ji et al., 2009)

About the journal

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