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

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

Fratzl, P. (2015). Imaging techniques: Extra dimension for bone analysis. Nature 527, 308–309.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haney, C. H., and Ausubel, F. M. (2015). MICROBIOME. Plant microbiome blueprints. Science 349, 788–789.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong, H., Wen, B., and Melnik, R. (2014). Relative importance of grain boundaries and size effects in thermal conductivity of nanocrystalline materials. Sci. Rep. 4, 7037.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mortezaei, N., Singh, B., Bullitt, E., Uhlin, B. E., and Andersson, M. (2013). P-fimbriae in the presence of anti-PapA antibodies: new insight of antibodies action against pathogens. Sci. Rep. 3, 3393.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jufer, M. (2013). Electric Drives. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Øksendal, B. (2007). Applied Stochastic Control of Jump Diffusions., ed. A. Sulem. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bruno, R., and Carbone, V. (2016). “Compressive Turbulence,” in Turbulence in the Solar Wind, ed. V. Carbone (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 153–167.

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 Behavioral Neuroscience.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). Scientists Are Growing Human Organs Inside Pigs. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-are-growing-human-organs-inside-pigs/ (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 (1973). Federal Catalog Program: Progress and Problems in Attaining a Uniform Identification System for Supplies. 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

Ferris, R. J. (2014). Numerical investigations of flow past a partially rotating stepped cylinder. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Barron, J. (2016). Donald Trump Hits the Town. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fratzl, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Fratzl, 2015; Haney and Ausubel, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Haney and Ausubel, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Mortezaei et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Behav. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5153
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology