How to format your references using the Frontiers in Neurocritical and Neurohospitalist Care citation style

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

Lippard, S. J. (2007). Obituary: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007). Nature 446, 626.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickware, P., and Smaglik, P. (2001). Labs and companies seek their niches as work continues after the draft. Nature 409, 961–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishimune, H., Sanes, J. R., and Carlson, S. S. (2004). A synaptic laminin-calcium channel interaction organizes active zones in motor nerve terminals. Nature 432, 580–587.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Coulson, T., Catchpole, E. A., Albon, S. D., Morgan, B. J., Pemberton, J. M., Clutton-Brock, T. H., et al. (2001). Age, sex, density, winter weather, and population crashes in Soay sheep. Science 292, 1528–1531.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt, G. (2013). Experimente rund um die Kunststoffe des Alltags. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Husemöller, D. (2008). Basic Bundle Theory and K-Cohomology Invariants: With contributions by Siegfried Echterhoff, Stefan Fredenhagen and Bernhard Krötz., eds. M. Joachim, B. Jurčo, and M. Schottenloher. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Deconinck, G., Vanthournout, K., Beitollahi, H., Qui, Z., Duan, R., Nauwelaers, B., et al. (2008). “A Robust Semantic Overlay Network for Microgrid Control Applications,” in Architecting Dependable Systems V, eds. R. de Lemos, F. D. Giandomenico, C. Gacek, H. Muccini, and M. Vieira (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 101–123.

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 Neurocritical and Neurohospitalist Care.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Watch Scientists Dissect Colossal Squid LIVE. 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 (1976). Analysis of Travel Activities of Certain Regulatory Agency Commissioners During 1971-75. 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

Jategaonkar, S. P. (2009). Two essays on stock repurchases and insider trading. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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, C. (2013). Maybe Animals Just Need Quality Time With Friends. New York Times, A23B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lippard, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Wickware and Smaglik, 2001; Lippard, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wickware and Smaglik, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Coulson et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neurocritical and Neurohospitalist Care
Abbreviation	Front. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1664-2295
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology