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

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

Schwefel, H. G. L. (2014). Optics. In optical pumping, less can be more. Science 346, 304–305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weeds, A., and Yeoh, S. (2001). Structure. Action at the Y-branch. Science 294, 1660–1661.

A journal article with 3 authors

Freitag, J., Ast, J., and Bölker, M. (2012). Cryptic peroxisomal targeting via alternative splicing and stop codon read-through in fungi. Nature 485, 522–525.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu, B., Han, L., Duan, Y., Cao, Y., Feng, J., Yao, Y., et al. (2014). Growth of optically active chiral inorganic films through DNA self-assembly and silica mineralisation. Sci. Rep. 4, 4866.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singer, B., and Fedorinchik, G. (2009). Investment Leadership and Portfolio Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Huffnagle, G. B., and Noverr, M. C. eds. (2008). GI Microbiota and Regulation of the Immune System. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kerzner, D. S., and Chodikoff, D. W. (2016). “International Tax Enforcement in the United States,” in International Tax Evasion in the Global Information Age, ed. D. W. Chodikoff (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 153–205.

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 Epilepsy.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Deep-Sea Ghost Shark Caught On Camera For The First Time. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deepsea-ghost-shark-caught-on-camera-for-the-first-time/ (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). Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS’s Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities. 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

Arnold, J. K. (2015). An Ecological Model for Health Policy Review: The Integration of New Institutional and Public Choice Theory for Public Policy Assessment. Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Poniewozik, J. (2017). Selling Us a Better Vision of Ourselves. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schwefel, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Weeds and Yeoh, 2001; Schwefel, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Weeds and Yeoh, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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