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

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

Cyranoski, D. (2000). Japan sets sights on success in nanotechnology. Nature 408, 624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cloetingh, S., and Haq, B. U. (2015). Sea level change. Inherited landscapes and sea level change. Science 347, 1258375.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hart, G. W., Housley, M. P., and Slawson, C. (2007). Cycling of O-linked beta-N-acetylglucosamine on nucleocytoplasmic proteins. Nature 446, 1017–1022.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Koglin, A., Mofid, M. R., Löhr, F., Schäfer, B., Rogov, V. V., Blum, M.-M., et al. (2006). Conformational switches modulate protein interactions in peptide antibiotic synthetases. Science 312, 273–276.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burrows, G. E., and Tyrl, R. J. (2012). Toxic Plants of North America. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Swartz, R., and Richmond, S. eds. (2014). The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi: Essays, Reviews, and Dialogues on Education from Forty-Five Years. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Vollweiler, J., and Zuccaro, G., Jr. (2006). “Staging of Esophageal Cancer,” in Endoscopic Oncology: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Cancer Management, eds. D. O. Faigel and M. L. Kochman (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press), 31–42.

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 Neurotrauma.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). This Ice Shelf Breaking From The Inside Out In West Antarctica Is Not Good News. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ice-shelf-west-antarctica-inside-out/ (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 (1973). Summary of United States Assistance to Jordan. 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

Mannar, N. K. (2017). Hri-Tech Consultants, LLC. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Williams, J. (2016). Books by Clare Beams, Hans Herbert Grimm, April Ayers Lawson and Kelly Luce. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski, 2000; Cloetingh and Haq, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cloetingh and Haq, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Koglin et al., 2006)

About the journal

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