How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neuro-otology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Neuro-otology. 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

Venema, L. (2005). Schrödinger’s mousetrap. Part 3. Nature 433, 463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harris, K. D., and Mrsic-Flogel, T. D. (2013). Cortical connectivity and sensory coding. Nature 503, 51–58.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schröder, G. F., Levitt, M., and Brunger, A. T. (2010). Super-resolution biomolecular crystallography with low-resolution data. Nature 464, 1218–1222.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Möller, P., Madland, D. G., Sierk, A. J., and Iwamoto, A. (2001). Nuclear fission modes and fragment mass asymmetries in a five-dimensional deformation space. Nature 409, 785–790.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tao, F., Zhang, L., and Hu, Y. (2011). Resource Service Management in Manufacturing Grid System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhang, Y. ed. (2012). Future Wireless Networks and Information Systems: Volume 2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dasgupta, A., Gencel, C., and Symons, C. (2015). “A Process to Improve the Accuracy of MkII FP to COSMIC Size Conversions: Insights into the COSMIC Method Design Assumptions,” in Software Measurement: 25th International Workshop on Software Measurement and 10th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, IWSM-Mensura 2015, Kraków, Poland, October 5-7, 2015, Proceedings, eds. A. Kobyliński, B. Czarnacka-Chrobot, and J. Świerczek (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 46–61.

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 Neuro-otology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017). This Battery That Lasts 10 Years Could Revolutionize The Future Of Renewable Energy. 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 (2014). Commercial Space Launches: FAA’s Risk Assessment Process Is Not Yet Updated. 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

Blazer, A. E. (2003). “I Am Otherwise”: The Romance Between Poetry and Theory After the Death of the Subject. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Johnston, D., and Greenhouse, L. (2005). ’01 Resolution Is Central to ’05 Controversy. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Venema, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Venema, 2005; Harris and Mrsic-Flogel, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Harris and Mrsic-Flogel, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Möller et al., 2001)

About the journal

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