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

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

Haile-Selassie, Y. (2001). Late Miocene hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature 412, 178–181.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taleff, E. M., and Pedrazas, N. A. (2013). Materials science. A new route for growing large grains in metals. Science 341, 1461–1462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koga, K., Tanaka, H., and Zeng, X. C. (2000). First-order transition in confined water between high-density liquid and low-density amorphous phases. Nature 408, 564–567.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tatsuo, H., Ono, N., Tanaka, K., and Yanagi, Y. (2000). SLAM (CDw150) is a cellular receptor for measles virus. Nature 406, 893–897.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous, A. (2012). Fracture Mechanics 1. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Priyadarshan, P. M., and Jain, S. M. eds. (2009). Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Temperate Species. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mun, H., and Park, J. H. (2016). “Inflammation and Fibrosis in ADPKD,” in Cystogenesis, eds. J. H. Park and C. Ahn (Singapore: Springer), 35–44.

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 Autonomic Neuroscience.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). China Has Apparently Been Testing The EmDrive In Space. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-has-apparently-been-testing-the-emdrive-in-space/ (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 (2006). Small Business Innovation Research: Information on Awards Made by NIH and DoD in Fiscal Years 2001 through 2004. 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

Roubin, A. M. (2014). A resource manual of bullying intervention programs for parents, educators, and community officials in the Los Angeles area. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Sisario, B. (2017). Sprint Throws a Cash Lifeline to Struggling Tidal. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haile-Selassie, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Haile-Selassie, 2001; Taleff and Pedrazas, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Taleff and Pedrazas, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tatsuo et al., 2000)

About the journal

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