How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neuromuscular Diseases citation style

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

Albarède, F. (2005). Geophysics. Helium feels the heat in Earth’s mantle. Science 310, 1777–1778.

A journal article with 2 authors

Charron, S., and Koechlin, E. (2010). Divided representation of concurrent goals in the human frontal lobes. Science 328, 360–363.

A journal article with 3 authors

Horváth, J., Szalai, I., and De Kepper, P. (2009). An experimental design method leading to chemical Turing patterns. Science 324, 772–775.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bromberg, K. D., Ma’ayan, A., Neves, S. R., and Iyengar, R. (2008). Design logic of a cannabinoid receptor signaling network that triggers neurite outgrowth. Science 320, 903–909.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mynbaev, K. T. (2011). Short-Memory Linear Processes and Econometric Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jin, D., and Lin, S. eds. (2012). Advances in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering: Volume 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

McNeile, A., and Roubtsova, E. (2010). “Aspect-Oriented Development Using Protocol Modeling,” in Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development VII: A Common Case Study for Aspect-Oriented Modeling, eds. S. Katz, M. Mezini, and J. Kienzle (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 115–150.

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 Neuromuscular Diseases.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Whale Shark DNA Detected In Samples Of Seawater. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whale-shark-dna-detected-in-samples-of-seawater/ (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 (1998). Goals 2000: Flexible Funding Supports State and Local Education Reform. 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

Walker, M. (2009). Industry - higher education partnerships: A case study analysis of learning together. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Hernández, J. C., and Drucker, J. (2017). Wooing China Investors With the Trump Name And Offers of U.S. Visas. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Albarède, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Albarède, 2005; Charron and Koechlin, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Charron and Koechlin, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bromberg et al., 2008)

About the journal

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