How to format your references using the Frontiers in Dementia citation style

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

Scott, W. G. (2014). Structural biology: How fluorescent RNA gets its glow. Nature 513, 42–43.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawaguchi, S., and Ng, D. T. W. (2011). Cell biology. Sensing ER stress. Science 333, 1830–1831.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bence, N. F., Sampat, R. M., and Kopito, R. R. (2001). Impairment of the ubiquitin-proteasome system by protein aggregation. Science 292, 1552–1555.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ireland, T. R., Holden, P., Norman, M. D., and Clarke, J. (2006). Isotopic enhancements of 17O and 18O from solar wind particles in the lunar regolith. Nature 440, 776–778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, R. (2005). Rational Choice and Judgment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

García-Vidal, J., and Cerdà-Alabern, L. eds. (2007). Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet: Third International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Sitges, Spain, June 6-9, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shapiro, I. I. (2011). “Radar Astronomy, General Relativity, and Celestial Mechanics,” in Modern Questions of Celestial Mechanics, ed. G. Colombo (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 65–168.

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 Dementia.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Autistic People Are More Creative Than You Might Think. 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 (1985). Software Tools and Techniques. 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

Turpie, K. R. (2012). Enhancement of a canopy reflectance model for understanding the specular and spectral effects of an aquatic background in an inundated tidal marsh. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Hodgman, J. (2017). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scott, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kawaguchi and Ng, 2011; Scott, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kawaguchi and Ng, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Ireland et al., 2006)

About the journal

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