How to format your references using the Frontiers in Sports Neurology citation style

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

Gomez, H. (2014). Astrophysics: Survival of the largest. Nature 511, 296–297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, S. K., and Rulifson, E. J. (2004). Conserved mechanisms of glucose sensing and regulation by Drosophila corpora cardiaca cells. Nature 431, 316–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kang, M.-K., Kim, S. J., and Kim, H. J. (2014). Fabrication of high performance thin-film transistors via pressure-induced nucleation. Sci. Rep. 4, 6858.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Okamoto, H., Yonemori, F., Wakitani, K., Minowa, T., Maeda, K., and Shinkai, H. (2000). A cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitor attenuates atherosclerosis in rabbits. Nature 406, 203–207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Charalambides, C. A. (2016). Discrete q-Distributions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ortuño, F., and Rojas, I. eds. (2015). Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering: Third International Conference, IWBBIO 2015, Granada, Spain, April 15-17, 2015. Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zanuttigh, P., Marin, G., Dal Mutto, C., Dominio, F., Minto, L., and Cortelazzo, G. M. (2016). “Data Fusion from Depth and Standard Cameras,” in Time-of-Flight and Structured Light Depth Cameras: Technology and Applications, eds. G. Marin, C. Dal Mutto, F. Dominio, L. Minto, and G. M. Cortelazzo (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 161–196.

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 Sports Neurology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017). Conservationists Rescue Rare White Orangutan In Borneo. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/conservationists-rescue-rare-white-orangutan-in-borneo/ (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 (1991). NASA Procurement: Management Oversight of Contract Costs and Time Changes Could Be Enhanced. 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

Bustillo, M. F. (2010). Heart and Art: Post-adoption program: A grant proposal. 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

Kelly, D. A. (2006). Video Catching Up to Photos When It Comes to Sharing. New York Times, C11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gomez, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kim and Rulifson, 2004; Gomez, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Rulifson, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Okamoto et al., 2000)

About the journal

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