How to format your references using the Frontiers in Sleep and Chronobiology citation style

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

Stewart, I., I. (2000). Mathematics. The Lorenz attractor exists. Nature 406, 948–949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan, W.-B., and Fan, H. (2014). Single-photon quantum router with multiple output ports. Sci. Rep. 4, 4820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, S. H., Oe, T., and Blair, I. A. (2001). Vitamin C-induced decomposition of lipid hydroperoxides to endogenous genotoxins. Science 292, 2083–2086.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Luh, D. A., Miller, T., Paggel, J. J., Chou, M. Y., and Chiang, T. C. (2001). Quantum electronic stability of atomically uniform films. Science 292, 1131–1133.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigby, K. A. (2013). Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ware, G. W., Whitacre, D. M., and Gunther, F. A. eds. (2007). Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wan, S., Yu, J., Wang, N., Wang, C., and Liu, F. (2014). “An Algorithm for Constructing Strongly Connected Dominating and Absorbing Sets in Wireless Networks with Unidirectional Links,” in Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks: 7th China Conference, CWSN 2013, Qingdao, China, October 17-19, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, eds. L. Sun, H. Ma, and F. Hong (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 41–50.

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 Sleep and Chronobiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Transylvanian Music Festival Offers Ticket Discount For Blood. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/transylvanian-music-festival-offers-ticket-discount-blood/ (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 (1977). Globe Safety Product’s Inquiry Regarding Firefighters Breathing Apparatus Developed for NASA by Scott Aviation Company. 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

Gillan-Sanderson, N. A. (2012). A Study of the Effect of Additional Reading Assistance on Student Achievement. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr., and Alani, H. (2017). Man Who Pushed Passenger Who Died on Subway Tracks Is Acquitted. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Stewart, 2000; Yan and Fan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yan and Fan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Luh et al., 2001)

About the journal

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