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

Goodman, S. (2001). Pressure grows over US blood ban. Nature 412, 467.

A journal article with 2 authors

Endow, S. A., and Higuchi, H. (2000). A mutant of the motor protein kinesin that moves in both directions on microtubules. Nature 406, 913–916.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turner, W. R., Oppenheimer, M., and Wilcove, D. S. (2009). A force to fight global warming. Nature 462, 278–279.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

O’Sullivan, M. C., Sprafke, J. K., Kondratuk, D. V., Rinfray, C., Claridge, T. D. W., Saywell, A., et al. (2011). Vernier templating and synthesis of a 12-porphyrin nano-ring. Nature 469, 72–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Larminat, P. (2014). Climate Change. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lambin, E. F., and Geist, H. eds. (2006). Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Local Processes and Global Impacts. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Biever, J. L., and Santos, J. (2016). “Ofreciendo Terapia En El Idioma De Preferencia Del Cliente: El Modelo De Preparación Profesional Calificada En Dos Idiomas De Ollu,” in Family Therapy in Global Humanitarian Contexts: Voices and Issues from the Field, eds. L. L. Charlés and G. Samarasinghe (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 51–63.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016). Clouds Hide The Water On Hot Exoplanets. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/clouds-hide-the-water-on-hot-exoplanets/ (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 (1976). Federal Short Takeoff and Landing Transport Programs: Status and Needs. 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

Obeng-Dompreh, S. (2008). The impact of servicemembers’ learning styles and computer anxiety levels on computer -mediated learning. 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

Macfarlane, I. (1905). “AN” AND “H.”; II. New York Times, SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR535.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Endow and Higuchi, 2000; Goodman, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Endow and Higuchi, 2000)
Three or more authors: (O’Sullivan et al., 2011)

About the journal

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