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

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

de Waal, F. B. M. (2013). Behavior. Animal conformists. Science 340, 437–438.

A journal article with 2 authors

Topisirovic, I., and Sonenberg, N. (2010). Cell biology. Burn out or fade away? Science 327, 1210–1211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halevy, I., Peters, S. E., and Fischer, W. W. (2012). Sulfate burial constraints on the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle. Science 337, 331–334.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Haramis, A.-P. G., Begthel, H., van den Born, M., van Es, J., Jonkheer, S., Offerhaus, G. J. A., et al. (2004). De novo crypt formation and juvenile polyposis on BMP inhibition in mouse intestine. Science 303, 1684–1686.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marvin, S. (2010). Dictionary of Scientific Principles. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Araújo, V. (2010). Three-Dimensional Flows., ed. M. J. Pacifico. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hagen, S., Edwards, N., Wilcock, L., Kirschnick, J., and Rolia, J. (2009). “One Is Not Enough: A Hybrid Approach for IT Change Planning,” in Integrated Management of Systems, Services, Processes and People in IT: 20th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2009, Venice, Italy, October 27-28, 2009. Proceedings, eds. C. Bartolini and L. P. Gaspary (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 56–70.

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 Neuroenergetics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016). How Technology Could Help Predict Terrorist Attacks. 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 (1979). Developing a Domestic Common Carrier Telecommunications Policy: What Are the Issues? 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

Rivas, V. E. (2014). Art appreciation program for homeless children: A grant proposal project. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Brantley, B. (2016). She Breaks the Mold, and Keeps On Giving. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Waal, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Topisirovic and Sonenberg, 2010; de Waal, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Topisirovic and Sonenberg, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Haramis et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Neuroenergetics
Abbreviation	Front. Neuroenergetics
ISSN (online)	1662-6427
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience