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

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

Bard, E. (2013). Climate change. Out of the African Humid Period. Science 342, 808–809.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jackson, B. E., and McInerney, M. J. (2002). Anaerobic microbial metabolism can proceed close to thermodynamic limits. Nature 415, 454–456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, S. T., Kim, S. K., and Kim, M. S. (2002). Observation of conformation-specific pathways in the photodissociation of 1-iodopropane ions. Nature 415, 306–308.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Reed, R. D., Papa, R., Martin, A., Hines, H. M., Counterman, B. A., Pardo-Diaz, C., et al. (2011). optix drives the repeated convergent evolution of butterfly wing pattern mimicry. Science 333, 1137–1141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramirez, J. (2015). Accounting for Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Li, M., Zhang, Q., Zhang, R., and Shi, X. eds. (2015). Proceedings of 2014 1st International Conference on Industrial Economics and Industrial Security. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yin, Y., Kaku, I., Tang, J., and Zhu, J. (2011). “Neural Network and Self-organizing Maps,” in Data Mining: Concepts, Methods and Applications in Management and Engineering Design, eds. I. Kaku, J. Tang, and J. Zhu (London: Springer), 87–100.

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 Decision Neuroscience.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016). New Paper Explains How The “Impossible’ EM Drive Might Work. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-paper-explains-how-the-impossible-em-drive-might-work/ (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 (2010). Postsecondary Education: Many States Collect Graduates’ Employment Information, but Clearer Guidance on Student Privacy Requirements Is 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

Morikawa, T. (2010). Aerodynamic analysis of an over-the-wing engine-mount aircraft. 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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017). A Mattress Maker Strikes a Deal With Target. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bard, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Jackson and McInerney, 2002; Bard, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Jackson and McInerney, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Reed et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-453X
Scope	General Neuroscience