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

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

Aspinall, W. (2010). A route to more tractable expert advice. Nature 463, 294–295.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shirts, M., and Pande, V. S. (2000). COMPUTING: Screen Savers of the World Unite! Science 290, 1903–1904.

A journal article with 3 authors

Head, J. N., Melosh, H. J., and Ivanov, B. A. (2002). Martian meteorite launch: high-speed ejecta from small craters. Science 298, 1752–1756.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Marois, C., Macintosh, B., Barman, T., Zuckerman, B., Song, I., Patience, J., et al. (2008). Direct imaging of multiple planets orbiting the star HR 8799. Science 322, 1348–1352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson, N., Hall, G., and Fawcett, W. (2011). How to Survive in Anaesthesia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Griebel, M. (2007). Numerical Simulation in Molecular Dynamics: Numerics, Algorithms, Parallelization, Applications., eds. G. Zumbusch and S. Knapek. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hsu, K.-S., Lin, M.-T., and Tong, C.-J. (2011). “The Measurement of Cyclic Creep Behavior in Copper Thin Film Using Microtensile Testing,” in MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, ed. T. Proulx (New York, NY: Springer), 31–38.

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 Integrative Neuroscience.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017). Simple Pee Test Could Reveal If You’re Eating A Healthy Diet. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/simple-pee-test-could-reveal-if-youre-eating-a-healthy-diet/ (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 (2003). Contracting for Information Technology Services. 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

Busalacchi, N. M. (2013). Access to healthcare: Disparities between the non-elderly adult population. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2015). Puerto Rico Governor’s Fiscal Oversight Plan Raises Doubts. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aspinall, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Shirts and Pande, 2000; Aspinall, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shirts and Pande, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Marois et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Integr. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5145
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Sensory Systems