How to format your references using the Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

van der Leij, M. J. (2011). Sociology. Experimenting with buddies. Science 334, 1220–1221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ciufolini, I., and Pavlis, E. C. (2004). A confirmation of the general relativistic prediction of the Lense-Thirring effect. Nature 431, 958–960.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, J., Li, W.-H., and Wu, C.-I. (2003). Comment on “Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence-accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes.” Science 302, 988; author reply 988.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li, G. S., Qu, J. J., Li, X. Z., and Wang, W. F. (2014). The sand-deposition impact of artificial gravel beds on the protection of the Mogao Grottoes. Sci. Rep. 4, 4341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clarke, A., Thompson, A., Jenkinson, E., Rumsey, N., and Newell, R. (2013). CBT for Appearance Anxiety. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Castellanos, M., Dayal, U., and Miller, R. J. eds. (2010). Enabling Real-Time Business Intelligence: Third International Workshop, BIRTE 2009, Held at the 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2009, Lyon, France, August 24, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hemenway, B., Libert, B., Ostrovsky, R., and Vergnaud, D. (2011). “Lossy Encryption: Constructions from General Assumptions and Efficient Selective Opening Chosen Ciphertext Security,” in Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2011: 17th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Seoul, South Korea, December 4-8, 2011. Proceedings, eds. D. H. Lee and X. Wang (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 70–88.

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 Aging Neuroscience.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). Blue Origin Might Intentionally Blow Up Its New Shepard Rocket In October. 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 (2007). Information Technology: FBI Following a Number of Key Acquisition Practices on New Case Management System but Improvements Still Needed. 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

So, R. J. (2010). Coolie democracy: U.S.-China political and literary exchange, 1925-1955. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Detrick, B. (2016). Elevating His Game as Art Connoisseur. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van der Leij, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ciufolini and Pavlis, 2004; van der Leij, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ciufolini and Pavlis, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Aging Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1663-4365
Scope	Ageing Cognitive Neuroscience