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

Savage, N. (2015). Proteomics: High-protein research. Nature 527, S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holme, P., and Liljeros, F. (2014). Birth and death of links control disease spreading in empirical contact networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 4999.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarola, V. W., Park, K., and Jain, J. K. (2000). Cooper instability of composite fermions. Nature 406, 863–865.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zachos, J. C., Shackleton, N. J., Revenaugh, J. S., Pälike, H., and Flower, B. P. (2001). Climate response to orbital forcing across the Oligocene-Miocene boundary. Science 292, 274–278.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schattke, W., and Díez Muiño, R. (2013). Quantum Monte Carlo Programming. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Feuerlicht, G., and Lamersdorf, W. eds. (2009). Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2008 Workshops: ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Sydney, Australia, December 1st, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Thomsen, H. S. (2006). “Management of Acute Adverse Reactions to Contrast Media,” in Contrast Media: Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines Medical Radiology., ed. H. S. Thomsen (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 19–25.

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). Sperm Whale Cultures Found To Completely Change In The Waters Of The Galápagos. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sperm-whale-cultures-found-to-completely-change-in-the-waters-of-the-galpagos/ [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 (2003). DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to be Justified. 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

McNeil, J. N. (2017). “I noticed something wrong”: Lived experiences of women of color who faced a protracted journey to diagnosis with lupus.

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

Brantley, B. (2017). A Revenge Tragedy Colored by Brecht. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Holme and Liljeros, 2014; Savage, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Holme and Liljeros, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zachos et al., 2001)

About the journal

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