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

Smaglik, P. (2005). A global view. Nature 435, 997.

A journal article with 2 authors

Butterworth, B., and Kovas, Y. (2013). Understanding neurocognitive developmental disorders can improve education for all. Science 340, 300–305.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilmore, C. K., McCarthy, S. E., and Spelke, E. S. (2007). Symbolic arithmetic knowledge without instruction. Nature 447, 589–591.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Taga, M. E., Larsen, N. A., Howard-Jones, A. R., Walsh, C. T., and Walker, G. C. (2007). BluB cannibalizes flavin to form the lower ligand of vitamin B12. Nature 446, 449–453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cabaniss, D. L., Cherry, S., Douglas, C. J., Graver, R. L., and Schwartz, A. R. (2013). Psychodynamic Formulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Marchiori, E., Moore, J. H., and Rajapakse, J. C. eds. (2007). Evolutionary Computation,Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics: 5th European Conference, EvoBIO 2007, Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Heemink, A. W., Hanea, R. G., Sumihar, J., Roest, M., Velzen, N., and Verlaan, M. (2010). “Data Assimilation Algorithms for Numerical Models,” in Advanced Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, eds. B. Koren and K. Vuik (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 107–142.

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

Andrews, R. (2015). World’s Ten Most Dangerous Volcanoes Identified. IFLScience.

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 (1990). Savings Opportunity for the United States Mint’s Promotional Mailings. 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

Clendening, R. J. (2009). A structured methodology for unifying functional analysis with systems analysis to enhance system behavior knowledge. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Greenhouse, L. (2007). Justices’ Ruling Limits Lawsuits On Pay Disparity. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2005; Butterworth and Kovas, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Butterworth and Kovas, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Taga et al., 2007)

About the journal

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