How to format your references using the Frontiers in Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology citation style

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

Scholz, C. H. (2000). A fault in the “weak San Andreas” theory. Nature 406, 234.

A journal article with 2 authors

Titus, S., and Bosch, X. (2010). Tie funding to research integrity. Nature 466, 436–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

McNally, A., Prier, C. K., and MacMillan, D. W. C. (2011). Discovery of an α-amino C-H arylation reaction using the strategy of accelerated serendipity. Science 334, 1114–1117.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Liu, Y., Chen, J., Guo, Q., Wang, T., and Pang, H. (2014). Cobalt vanadium oxide thin nanoplates: primary electrochemical capacitor application. Sci. Rep. 4, 5687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, P., and Kempner, M. (2015). 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Borisyuk, A. (2005). Tutorials in Mathematical Biosciences I: Mathematical Neuroscience., eds. A. Friedman, B. Ermentrout, and D. Terman. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, Y., Nishida, T., and Thompson, S. E. (2010). “Band Structures of Strained Semiconductors,” in Strain Effect in Semiconductors: Theory and Device Applications, eds. S. E. Thompson and T. Nishida (Boston, MA: Springer US), 51–135.

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 Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Coca-Cola Is Funding Controversial Research That Claims Bad Diets Don’t Cause Obesity. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/coca-cola-funds-research-blames-obesity-lack-exercise-and-downplay-role-bad/ (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 (2004). Homeland Security: Efforts Under Way to Develop Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains. 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

Wells, R. E. (2008). Managers’ affective expressions as determinants of employee responses to change: Valence, inappropriateness and authenticity. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Kelly, M. (1992). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton’s Camp Says It Is Wary Of Perot Inroads. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scholz, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Scholz, 2000; Titus and Bosch, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Titus and Bosch, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology