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

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

French, A. N. (2010). Chemistry. Clean, green chiral reactions--just add a salt. Science 328, 1365–1366.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shraiman, B. I., and Siggia, E. D. (2000). Scalar turbulence. Nature 405, 639–646.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Den Brink, G. R., de Santa Barbara, P., and Roberts, D. J. (2001). Development. Epithelial cell differentiation--a Mather of choice. Science 294, 2115–2116.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cohen, J. C., Kiss, R. S., Pertsemlidis, A., Marcel, Y. L., McPherson, R., and Hobbs, H. H. (2004). Multiple rare alleles contribute to low plasma levels of HDL cholesterol. Science 305, 869–872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stahl, S. (2011). Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McGettigan, T. (2016). A Formula for Eradicating Racism: Debunking White Supremacy., ed. E. Smith. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng, D., Qi, H., and Li, Z. (2011). “Logical Equations,” in Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks: A Semi-tensor Product Approach, eds. H. Qi and Z. Li (London: Springer), 67–101.

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 Human Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Dolphin Attempts To Revive Its Dead Calf. 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 (2007). Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Hansell, L. (2017). Perceptions of Supervisor Ethical Behavior by Psychology Interns. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Greenhouse, L. (2007). Eyes on Supreme Court In Execution Case Tonight. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (French, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Shraiman and Siggia, 2000; French, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shraiman and Siggia, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Cohen et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Hum. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5161
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Behavioral Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry Neurology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology