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

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

Yewdell, J. W. (2003). Immunology. Hide and seek in the peptidome. Science 301, 1334–1335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marquis, M., and Tans, P. (2008). Climate change. Carbon crucible. Science 320, 460–461.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, J.-W., Zhuang, X., and Rabczuk, T. (2013). Orientation dependent thermal conductance in single-layer MoS2. Sci. Rep. 3, 2209.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hobmayer, B., Rentzsch, F., Kuhn, K., Happel, C. M., von Laue, C. C., Snyder, P., et al. (2000). WNT signalling molecules act in axis formation in the diploblastic metazoan Hydra. Nature 407, 186–189.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mcphee, J. E. (2014). Mastering Strategic Risk. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marincola, F. M., and Wang, E. eds. (2011). Immunologic Signatures of Rejection. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brady, B. H. G., and Brown, E. T. (2004). “Rock strength and deformability,” in Rock Mechanics for underground mining: Third edition, ed. E. T. Brown (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 85–141.

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 Evolutionary Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Is Your Religion Ready To Meet ET? 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 (1993). NASA’s FMFIA Assertions and CFO Plan. 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

Alla, B. (2017). Wellbore Stability Analysis of Sanish Field using 3-D Finite Element Model: Bakken Case Study. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Strauss, B. (2017). N.L.R.B. Lawyer Affirms Athletes’ Rights. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yewdell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Yewdell, 2003; Marquis and Tans, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Marquis and Tans, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hobmayer et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Evol. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1663-070X
Scope	Clinical Neurology General Neuroscience