How to format your references using the Frontiers in Endovascular and Interventional Neurology citation style

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

Lucchitta, I. (2013). Comment on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon.” Science 340, 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clarke, J., and Wilhelm, F. K. (2008). Superconducting quantum bits. Nature 453, 1031–1042.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fernandes, C. C., Podos, J., and Lundberg, J. G. (2004). Amazonian ecology: tributaries enhance the diversity of electric fishes. Science 305, 1960–1962.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miller, S. E., Collins, B. M., McCoy, A. J., Robinson, M. S., and Owen, D. J. (2007). A SNARE-adaptor interaction is a new mode of cargo recognition in clathrin-coated vesicles. Nature 450, 570–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rumelhard, C., Algani, C., and Billabert, A.-L. (2013). Microwave Photonic Links. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Capogna, L. (2007). An Introduction to the Heisenberg Group and the Sub-Riemannian Isoperimetric Problem., eds. S. D. Pauls, D. Danielli, and J. T. Tyson. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Belohlavek, R. (2011). “What is a Fuzzy Concept Lattice? II,” in Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing: 13th International Conference, RSFDGrC 2011, Moscow, Russia, June 25-27, 2011. Proceedings, eds. S. O. Kuznetsov, D. Ślęzak, D. H. Hepting, and B. G. Mirkin (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 19–26.

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 Endovascular and Interventional Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Meet The Next Generation of Waste-Free Food Packaging. 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 (1987). Missile Development: Development Status of the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile. 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

Hayes, E. T. (2012). Musical improvisation and the creative process. 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

Cooper, M. (2017). Fixing Geffen Hall? Ask Ohio. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucchitta, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Clarke and Wilhelm, 2008; Lucchitta, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Clarke and Wilhelm, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al., 2007)

About the journal

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