How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neuropharmacology citation style

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

Turner, M. (2015). Ecology: Mangrove maintenance. Nature 526, 515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jung, J., and Bonini, N. (2007). CREB-binding protein modulates repeat instability in a Drosophila model for polyQ disease. Science 315, 1857–1859.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonekura, K., Maki-Yonekura, S., and Namba, K. (2003). Complete atomic model of the bacterial flagellar filament by electron cryomicroscopy. Nature 424, 643–650.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Harmon, L. J., Matthews, B., Des Roches, S., Chase, J. M., Shurin, J. B., and Schluter, D. (2009). Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature 458, 1167–1170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmann, H., Steinle, A., and Hahn, V. (2010). Bauen mit Betonfertigteilen im Hochbau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Li, S., Saddik, A. E., Wang, M., Mei, T., Sebe, N., Yan, S., et al. eds. (2013). Advances in Multimedia Modeling: 19th International Conference, MMM 2013, Huangshan, China, January 7-9, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ma, Z., Zhao, Q., Zeng, Y., Zhang, H., and Dai, H.-N. (2016). “AT-MAC: A Novel Full Duplex MAC Design for Achieving Asymmetric Transmission,” in Mobile and Wireless Technologies 2016, eds. K. J. Kim, N. Wattanapongsakorn, and N. Joukov (Singapore: Springer), 41–49.

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 Neuropharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Creepiest Looking Animals In The World. IFLScience.

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 (1973). Patrol Frigate. 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

Funderburk, J. (2010). Modern Variation in Predation Intensity: Constraints on Assessing Predator-Prey Relationships in Paleoecologic Reconstructions. 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

Brantley, B. (2016). Dear Theatergoers: Prepare for a Good Cry. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turner, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jung and Bonini, 2007; Turner, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jung and Bonini, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Harmon et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuropharmacology
Abbreviation	Front. Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	1663-9812
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology