How to format your references using the Frontiers in Movement Disorders citation style

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

Hoogland, J. L. (2013). Prairie dogs disperse when all close kin have disappeared. Science 339, 1205–1207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wei, H.-R., and Deng, F.-G. (2014). Scalable quantum computing based on stationary spin qubits in coupled quantum dots inside double-sided optical microcavities. Sci. Rep. 4, 7551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doncaster, C. P., Pound, G. E., and Cox, S. J. (2000). The ecological cost of sex. Nature 404, 281–285.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hansen, S. G., Ford, J. C., Lewis, M. S., Ventura, A. B., Hughes, C. M., Coyne-Johnson, L., et al. (2011). Profound early control of highly pathogenic SIV by an effector memory T-cell vaccine. Nature 473, 523–527.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardner, S., and Birley, S. (2010). Blogging for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Li, H.-X. (2011). Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems: A Time/Space Separation Based Approach., ed. C. Qi. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Andersen, M. L., D’Almeida, V., Ko, G. M., Martins, P. J. F., and Tufik, S. (2016). “Care and Maintenance of Laboratory Animals,” in Rodent Model as Tools in Ethical Biomedical Research, eds. M. L. Andersen and S. Tufik (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 23–37.

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 Movement Disorders.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015). Orangutans Come Down From The Trees. 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 (1995). School Safety: Promising Initiatives for Addressing School Violence. 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

Tengco, M. A. (2017). Quality Home Care: Providing Personal Care and Homemaking Services for Seniors in the Community. 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Boris Without Beatrice. New York Times, C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoogland, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hoogland, 2013; Wei and Deng, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wei and Deng, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hansen et al., 2011)

About the journal

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