How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neuroanatomy citation style

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

Krupic, J. (2015). Brain crystals. Science 350, 47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuper, R., and Kröpelin, S. (2006). Climate-controlled Holocene occupation in the Sahara: motor of Africa’s evolution. Science 313, 803–807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reinfelder, J. R., Kraepiel, A. M., and Morel, F. M. (2000). Unicellular C4 photosynthesis in a marine diatom. Nature 407, 996–999.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani, M., Keith, A. N., Cong, Y., Liang, H., Rosenthal, M., Sztucki, M., et al. (2018). Chameleon-like elastomers with molecularly encoded strain-adaptive stiffening and coloration. Science 359, 1509–1513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qu, D. (2016). Manufacturing and Managing Customer-Driven Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dwivedi, Y. K., Mäntymäki, M., Ravishankar, M. N., Janssen, M., Clement, M., Slade, E. L., et al. eds. (2016). Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016, Swansea, UK, September 13–15, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ashyralyev, A., and Çekiç, F. (2016). “On Source Identification Problem for Telegraph Differential Equations,” in Differential and Difference Equations with Applications: ICDDEA, Amadora, Portugal, May 2015, Selected Contributions, eds. S. Pinelas, Z. Došlá, O. Došlý, and P. E. Kloeden (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 39–50.

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 Neuroanatomy.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Study Reveals Bite Strength Of Stegosaurus Was Similar To A Cow. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sophie-stegosaurus-had-surprisingly-strong-bite/ (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 (1983). Poor Design and Management Hamper Army’s Basic Skills Education Program. 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

Lu, Y.-C. (2009). From confrontation to accommodation: China’s policy toward the U.S. in the post-Cold War era. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Kanter, J. (2016). Bucking Resistance, Canada and E.U. Sign Trade Deal. New York Times, A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krupic, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kuper and Kröpelin, 2006; Krupic, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kuper and Kröpelin, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
Abbreviation	Front. Neuroanat.
ISSN (online)	1662-5129
Scope	Anatomy Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience