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

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

Bordel, S. (2013). Experimental evidence suggests the existence of evolutionary conserved global operation principles governing microbial metabolism. Sci. Rep. 3, 3017.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim-Muller, J. Y., and Accili, D. (2011). Cell biology. Selective insulin sensitizers. Science 331, 1529–1531.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanash, S. M., Pitteri, S. J., and Faca, V. M. (2008). Mining the plasma proteome for cancer biomarkers. Nature 452, 571–579.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bafekrpour, E., Molotnikov, A., Weaver, J. C., Brechet, Y., and Estrin, Y. (2014). Responsive materials: a novel design for enhanced machine-augmented composites. Sci. Rep. 4, 3783.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hübschmann, H.-J. (2015). Handbook of GC-MS. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Mira, J., Ferrández, J. M., Álvarez, J. R., Paz, F. de la, and Toledo, F. J. eds. (2009). Bioinspired Applications in Artificial and Natural Computation: Third International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2009, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 22-26, 2009, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Looi, C.-K., Sun, D., and Xie, W. (2016). “Design for Linking Science Learning to the Informal Spaces,” in ICT in Education in Global Context: Comparative Reports of Innovations in K-12 Education, eds. R. Huang, Kinshuk, and J. K. Price (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 75–94.

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 Teleneurology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Ancient Egyptian Human Fetus Discovered. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/youngest-known-ancient-egyptian-human-fetus-discovered/ (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 (1974). Independent Research and Development Allocations Should Not Absorb Costs of Commercial Development Work. 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

Bryant, J. D. (2014). The Investigation of Self-Determination in Students Participating in Higher Education with an Invisible Disability. 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

Gustines, G. G. (2017). Bernie Wrightson, 68, a Comic Book Artist and Swamp Thing Creator. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bordel, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kim-Muller and Accili, 2011; Bordel, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kim-Muller and Accili, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bafekrpour et al., 2014)

About the journal

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