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

Benitez-Nelson, C. (2015). Ocean chemistry. The missing link in oceanic phosphorus cycling? Science 348, 759–760.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carter, R. M., and Gammon, P. (2004). New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma. Science 304, 1659–1662.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lia, G., Michel, B., and Allemand, J.-F. (2012). Polymerase exchange during Okazaki fragment synthesis observed in living cells. Science 335, 328–331.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ryazanova, L. V., Hu, Z., Suzuki, S., Chubanov, V., Fleig, A., and Ryazanov, A. G. (2014). Elucidating the role of the TRPM7 alpha-kinase: TRPM7 kinase inactivation leads to magnesium deprivation resistance phenotype in mice. Sci. Rep. 4, 7599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, T. (2013). Constantine. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Feng, L., Wang, G., Zeng, C., and Huang, R. eds. (2006). Web Information Systems – WISE 2006 Workshops: WISE 2006 International Workshops, Wuhan, China, October 23-26, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kulikowski, J. L. (2012). “Human Activity Supporting by Deontological Knowledgebases,” in Human – Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 2: Part 1, eds. Z. S. Hippe, J. L. Kulikowski, and T. Mroczek (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 67–83.

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). WHO Prepares For Ebola Outbreak to Reach 20,000 In Nine Months. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/who-prepares-ebola-outbreak-reach-20000-nine-months/ (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 (2012). Information Technology Reform: Progress Made; More Needs to Be Done to Complete Actions and Measure Results. 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

Kasun, K. K. (2010). Economic effectiveness of physician organizational models in a California integrated healthcare system. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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). New Puerto Rico Debt Relief Law Stirs Colonial Resentments. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benitez-Nelson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Carter and Gammon, 2004; Benitez-Nelson, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Carter and Gammon, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ryazanova et al., 2014)

About the journal

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