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

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

Lincoln, T. (2001). Animal behaviour: Greensleaves. Nature 410, 318.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaki, N., and Mora, A. (2014). A comparative analysis of computational approaches and algorithms for protein subcomplex identification. Sci. Rep. 4, 4262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Law, R. M., Matear, R. J., and Francey, R. J. (2008). Comment on “Saturation of the southern ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change.” Science 319, 570; author reply 570.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Maret, S., Franken, P., Dauvilliers, Y., Ghyselinck, N. B., Chambon, P., and Tafti, M. (2005). Retinoic acid signaling affects cortical synchrony during sleep. Science 310, 111–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murti, Y., and Vijayan, C. (2014). Essentials of Nonlinear Optics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Andreescu, T. (2014). Complex Numbers from A to ... Z., 2nd ed. 2014, ed. D. Andrica. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Omar, H. A., and Zhuang, W. (2014). “Conclusions and Future Works,” in Time Division Multiple Access For Vehicular Communications, ed. W. Zhuang (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 59–60.

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 Cellular Neuroscience.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016). Green Light Could Help With Migraines. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/green-light-migraine-relief/ (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 (1991). Test and Evaluation: Description of Projects in DOD’s Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program. 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

Tucker, M. T. (2009). Structure-property stress state dependent relationships under varying strain rates. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Wilson, M. (2017). Trump’s First Visit Home Will Not Be a Sleepover. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lincoln, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lincoln, 2001; Zaki and Mora, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zaki and Mora, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Maret et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Cell. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5102
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience