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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gewin, V., 2010. The spread of postdoc unions. Nature 467, 739–741.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhou, Z., Zhang, F., 2002. A long-tailed, seed-eating bird from the Early Cretaceous of China. Nature 418, 405–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, G., Jarvis, E.D., Gilbert, M.T.P., 2014. Avian genomes. A flock of genomes. Introduction. Science 346, 1308–1309.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wei, B.-B., Chen, S.-W., Po, H.-C., Liu, R.-B., 2014. Phase transitions in the complex plane of physical parameters. Sci. Rep. 4, 5202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pierce, D.R., 2013. Project Scheduling and Management for Construction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nishida, T., 2014. Conversational Informatics: A Data-Intensive Approach with Emphasis on Nonverbal Communication. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Gao, S., Li, Z., Yu, J., Gao, X., Wu, W., 2009. DNA Library Screening, Pooling Design and Unitary Spaces, in: Du, D.-Z., Hu, X., Pardalos, P.M. (Eds.), Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: Third International Conference, COCOA 2009, Huangshan, China, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–60.

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 Neuroendocrinology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. The Sun Has Been Spotless For More Than Two Weeks [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-sun-has-been-spotless-for-more-than-two-weeks/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. NATO-Warsaw Pact: Conventional Force Balance--Papers for U.S. and Soviet Perspectives Workshops (No. NSIAD-89-23B). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, E.R., 2011. Comparison of instructional techniques of high school economics teachers in Georgia and Shenzhen, China (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Kolomatsky, M., 2017. August’s Most Popular Listings. New York Times RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2010; Zhou and Zhang, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Zhou and Zhang, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wei et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Neuroendocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0091-3022
Scope	Endocrine and Autonomic Systems